Starlight’s Dream

book recs:
 the royals by erin watt

This moment right here. This is the moment that Stiles realizes that Lydia loves him. She remembers him when everyone else has forgetten him - Coach, Scott, his own dad. But Lydia remembers him and doesn’t want to lose him, doesn’t want to be separated and risk losing him.

*in the mortal realm*

Jude, eating takeout and watching anime:*looks out window suddenly*

Vivi, wearing a facemask: what’s wrong?

cardan: “This is my room. And that’s my wife.”

me:

*literally two lines later*

jude: "Oh, I don’t know. Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

cardan: “I would. And perhaps one day I will.”

me:

Here we are folks - the post The Folk of the Air era. I poured my heart into this piece as a send off to the series, as it truly was a treat to experience from start to finish. ❄️ I’m not sure if it was apparent in the illustration I did for The Wicked King, “Self Reflection”, but I had meant to make it a ‘zoomed out’ version of the cover (the crown falling into the watery depths). I played with the idea of wondering where the crown would land; would Cardan let it fall onto Jude, or stay in his place to take it for her? Could he move at all? ❄️ I took a similar approach here with this piece. If “Self Reflection” was themed around falling, then this is about separating; splitting; severing. ❄️ *Puts away thesaurus* ❄️ Can I say that I really don’t enjoy clothing/armor design? 😔 To me its detail is as tedious as washing a car with a toothbrush. I’m more interested in the emotions of the characters and scene, but I felt I avoided it so often, that I gave my girl Jude the attention she deserved for this one. I took a study of Alan Lee’s inspirational design work (LOTR) to spin Holly’s very helpful and elaborate descriptions of fashion into a fun Queen Mab inspired design.

Well, this looks familiar! A few weeks back, I was testing out a vellum paper to use on an upcoming papercraft and decided to use Jude’s dress from one of my illustrations – to get familiar with the translucency and different vellum coats. Afterward, I decided to finish the illustration outright and worked on Cardan and the rest of the papercraft over the past weekend… ‘cause you don’t give Jude a bunch of attention and then just banish her, abandon her, leave her to sit in time-out on a shelf! *COUGH*

Overall, I looooove the effect that the vellum papers offered here and I’ll look to use them in more future pieces!

Notably, April marks a year since I started this account and a year since I began papercrafting again. With my upcoming Wicked King papercraft in illumicrate’s April box, this will mark my 4th TFOTA papercraft, and a great callback to the first papercraft on this account. I’m very humbled about how much this account has grown and to how many people my artwork has reached; all because of you, my followers and viewers. I only post on a few platforms, but you wonderful people help share the experience, and I’m very grateful!