Away With The Fairies

Hanukkah, 1962

This took 50 hours!! This is officially the longest I have ever worked on a piece!!! Beating my record from last April.

I wanted this picture to feel like a warm hug

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It's the Pines bros sleeping in the big sweater Ford mentions in his journal after opening their presents and having latkes and sufganiyot, as well as Chinese takeout because it's Christmas too hehe.

I started this big illustration way back in December, was hoping to finish it before Hanukkah ended...and then I blinked and it was June. Definitely going to repost this in December because I did not work on this for 50 hours over the course of six months to only post it once lol.

I mostly kept putting it off because I didn't know how I was going to color + shade it, especially with all those details, so I slowly chipped away at the process. I'm glad I did- look how colorful it is! I'm really really happy with this.

I love the Pines family, they mean so much to me ❤️‍🩹

I'm doing six fanarts again because I really enjoyed the last one I did!

The character I chose for my current favorite is Ponyboy Curtis from The Outsiders 💛💛💛

Love this book a lot and the movie too <3 I've been totally obsessed with it as of lately and am making even more fanart of it hehe. Ponyboy is so relatable and he's adorable 🥹 He reminds me of myself when I was his age. Lord saying that makes me sound like an old grandmother.

Honestly If I got as into the book when I was 12 as I am now l would have had multiple sketchbooks full of cringy fanart by now Imao

"Easy, Ponyboy....we'll be okay."

The Outsiders, Chapter 3 scene redraw

Essentially a redraw of the scene where Johnny comforts Ponyboy after his confrontation with Darry and he runs away. andbjadhsh my poor babies T^T

Reposting cause the last post flopped </3 and y'know what this is my art account I can post this as many times as I want so yeah ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

I'm just gonna keep reposting it til it doesn't flop honestly

"Easy, Ponyboy, we'll be okay."

From The Outsiders, Chapter 3

I reread The Outsiders back in March after 9 years and I've never loved it more.

I was first introduced to this book in 2017 as part of my required reading for 7th grade. That Summer was very hard on me because I had just lost my mother, so admittedly I wasn't too keen on schoolwork and preferred other more entertaining distractions. I skimmed through the book, finished the Summer homework through the skin of my teeth, and otherwise forgot about it until recently. When I was packing for college I decided to take a small set amount of books with me, and this book ended up being included in the pile because it was short and I wanted to read more classics. People were also talking about it online again and how it was one of the only assigned books in English class that truly had them engaged with their reading. It was gritty and emotional, with lots of dramatic scenes and characters who could easily find their way right into your heart, making it all the more devastating when tragedy struck.

After finishing a particularly boring book and needing something that could smoothly guide me back into reading, I picked up the Outsiders and decided to give it another chance. This time as an adult and because I wanted to.

It is now one of my favorite books ever. I now wish I had given it more of a chance when I was 12, because If I find Ponyboy relatable now, he might as well have been a boy version of me back then. I think the experience of the book is better enhanced when you watch it alongside the movie, because I think both are equally great and compliment one another- the movie does things the book doesn't, and vice versa. It's even more fun to find and analyze all of the little details in both the book and movie, and then to scour the internet looking for behind the scene footage, interviews, news articles and magazine clippings both from when the book was published and when the movie was released.

This illustration I made in particular was from Chapter 3, where Ponyboy runs away with Johnny after Darry hits him and ends up crying on a curb as Johnny comforts him. As I read the scene for the first time the image came into my head so clearly I knew I just had to illustrate it and I wouldn't be satisfied until it left my mind and entered a canvas. I'm a total sucker for drama and angst, and Johnny and Pony's relationship is honestly so sweet, I love their bond and how soft they are around each other compared to the rest of the gang. I'm usually used to drawing very bright and colorful scenes, so something moody and dramatic like this was a change of pace for me. I ended up spending a total of 23 hours on it, mainly because I was having so much trouble trying to get Pony's hair right lol, but I'm mighty proud of the end result. I felt very painterly all while making it, and I'm especially proud of the little symbolic details I added in 😉

I also hope you all like my physical interpretations of the characters! I didn't really base it off of solely the book or the movie, rather I took inspiration from both and mixed them together to create something new and personal.

Do you guys see the vision

I changed their expressions in lieu of the new hair dos because they just looked too silly looking all angry and scary with such floofy hair lol

And Johnny deserves to smile for once

I looove how fluffy and curly Ponyboy's hair is in my church interpretation, it likes like a cloud or a lamb's wool. He would hate both of those descriptions haha

Sorry if I make Ponyboy look to babyish but I like the design too much now to change it 🫣😣

Some updates to my Outsiders interpretations in progress and also- Dallas! :D

Not completely happy with these yet but also at this point idk if I should just be happy and work with what I have now or if I should keep being a perfectionist lol

Ok so I think while I'm working I'll talk about some of my decisions for the design and the direction I have in my head

I really like my concept for Dallas I'm just having some trouble on the execution of his face? I made his hair very sharp and pointy, this is based on his book description where it's very blonde. I like the idea of hair encompassing his face in such a way that they look like fangs. I went in heavy with the triangular shape language

For Johnny i changed some of his features and his hairstyle bc he looked too much like that guy from Voltron 😭 I gave him lots of freckles and some facial blemishes bc I figure he's probably outside and out of his house a lot. He looks kind of emo, I think I gave him too many eyebags

I'm a little worried about Ponyboy bc the thing is I like his design but I feel like people are going to accuse me of babying him down or making him too 'kawaii'

It's kind of hard to draw these characters bc I based my artstyle around cutesy-ness and anime aesthetics, and obviously that clashes with such a serious and realistic story.

I can't help it though I like how soft he looks :((( I should probably make his ear smaller later on actually

Idk maybe I subconsciously project onto Pony more bc he's my favorite and one of my top kins. Like he and I were the same person when I was 12-14. I am very maternal about him like that's literally me that's younger me that's my son thank you

Heyyy I'm back into The Outsiders again after re-reading last week

Some rough sketches of my interpretations of some of the characters :)

In order: Johnny, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry

I love you Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way my goffick daughter

Goodbye 2025, hello 2006

She's finally done! My Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way handsewn doll made from fabric scraps and felt. I did make her hair a dark purple instead of completely black bc I just liked how it looked better sorry

This is my second doll I've ever sewn. I think she came out so cute even though it took so much work making her and so many mess ups along the way. Maybe I should record the process for my next doll. Anyways long live Tara Gilesbie and the My Immortal fanfic. Mcr rocks prepz stop flaming fangs for reading