Son of Thorns | Bridger of Minds

And without glasses version:

I love Bridge Four so much 🤲🏻

Rlainarin wedding 🌸

Searching for ceremonial robes of different nationalities was quite hard but still fun, anyway I kept that simple enough (I spared myself)

Just regular Rlainarin fanart for mental health 🌸

Since I’ve started drawing Cosmere characters, in my own artworks I noticed two things 1) their uniform designs are different every fucking time 2) Rlain’s carapace looks different every fucking time.

I think I have a problem with decisions.

Hey do you want to draw Stormlight fanart? Is the world so dazzlingly large that parts of it are beyond what you're currently able to draw? That's a pretty common experience! So I've put together a list of resources you might find helpful. Assume that none of these resources have image descriptions.

Pose and body type references

Stormlight has a lot of action poses and some variation in body types (I see you Cord I love you Cord) - expand your ability to draw poses and body sizes!

Trueref.io - free reference photos made by artists. Models are in underclothes. They're generally thin and have a variety of ethnicities.

Nappy.co - free reference photos of Black and Brown people of various sizes in modern clothes and settings.

Howard Schatz - a photo series of the body types of various world-class athletes

line-of-action.com - this website offers timed figure study as well as animals, shapes, hands/feet, expressions, and environment drawings.

How to draw fat people - a tumblr list of resources including free access to the book Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds

Adorkastock - free reference photos with a variety of models, and a sketch resource for timed figure studies

Drawing Asian and Black Faces

This is a challenge for a lot of artists who are new to the Stormlight fandom! The books describe the Alethi as having tan (NOT "tanned") skin and epicanthic folds, and Sanderson has described various Rosharan ethnicities and stated that only the Shin would have people who look white. Unfortunately that's not always clear to readers. Check out Kaladin Isn't White here on tumblr for a compendium of resources on various Rosharan ethnicities, relevant WoBs, and Brandon's facecasts! Here's some more resources and guides that could be helpful too:

Drawing East Asian Faces by Kat Tsai, a visual development artist - a very helpful guide to drawing East Asian faces

Drawing Asian skin tones and hair, a tumblr guide to misconceptions and avoiding whitewashing

Drawing Black skin tones and hair, and drawing hijabis, a series of tiktok guides

Skin tone tutorial by Lauren Cannon, fantasy artist, which covers light to dark skin as well as fantasy colours

Drawing blushing on darker skin tones, a tumblr guide

Skin tone variations, undertones, and face references - this will also bring you to a photography project called Humanae, which catalogues human faces of various ages, ethnicities, and genders and assigns their skin tone a pantone colour. A great resource for exploring various face shapes!

A huge list of drawing references relevant to Stormlight on Pinterest - thanks to @stormscience for putting that together!

How to Avoid Whitewashing Skin Tone

Once you start exploring darker skin tones you might be frustrated with the colour not working out the way you intended. Here are some guides to using colour theory, and why colour picking doesn't always work:

Using colour theory to get the right skin tone - a tumblr guide

Lighting dark skin - a guide by Nilah Magruder, illustrator, that discusses lighting and colour theory

Using Temuera Morrison as an example of a polynesian man - his features and skin tone are useful not just for drawing SW clones but for drawing Alethi like Kaladin, thanks to this WoB

Wheelchair References

I see you Rysn I love you Rysn

Options on a manual wheelchair for active users - a tumblr guide that describes what the different features on a manual wheelchair are for, so you can customize a chair for the character you're drawing.

ClipStuido 3D model manual wheelchairs - assets for drawing

How to Draw Wheelchair Users - a tumblr guide to choosing the right chair for your character

How to Design a Wheelchair for Active Users - a tumblr guide to modern manual wheelchairs

Clothing References

Database of cultural clothes - a tumblr list of lots of websites for clothing inspiration from around the world

Stormlight fashion - a tumblr blog dedicated to fashion run by @botanicaxu! Thank you!

I NEED to draw more stormlight pride month!

(Wind and Truth text image from @fairyplam)

Two people holding a gemstone prison. The Bridger of Minds. The Son of Thorns. On the edge of a proverbial cliff, and a future no one—not even the gods—could see. (Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth)

Commission for Hannah, for Fandom trumps Hate. Perfect choice to have two people whose love trumps hate across species, in the face of cultural prejudice and neurodiversity.

Painted in Procreate, with my new gouache brushset.

(dont look at the proportions PLEASE)

(proof that i draw like a small child)

i do not normally draw eyes like that as you can tell

This scene!

Honestly, I wasn't planning on ever reading this series, but some queer work friends of mine were doing a group read of this, and assured me it had canon queer characters in it so I read it to see for myself.

So I was expecting the boys, but NO ONE told me about fujoshi Shallan!

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