#wcbac

We Could Build a Castle

Thanks to the recent posts, decided to put everything in one place!

This is a passion project by @magicians4time and yours truly.

Their fic is amazing, and I do my very best with the art!

Eliot is Howl

Quentin is Sophie

And a lot more really, really cool character and plot choices/correspondences, just such a great fit in Librarity's fic!!

The whole shebang: Fic with Art on AO3:

We Could Build a Castle, Fic by Librarity, Art by EliotQueliot

Here are the main Tumblr posts announcing each chapter (there are a lot more posts for this project overall--to see everything, go to EliotQueliot's blog, scroll down on the right to the Projects section, find the icon of Q in his workshop for We Could Build a Castle, and click the Project Link.)

Chapter 1 is live

Chapter 2 is live

Chapter 3 is live

Chapter 4 is live

Chapter 5 is live

Yes, it's a WIP, and due to Life, it's taking a minute. But we love it, and it will be complete one day!

Also, if you want a close-up look at the art, here's the art-focused side of the project with everything in one place:

Posted for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 6: Welcome back to WIPs!

You can see some, but not all, of these in the animatic. I wanted to create the sense of movement for the still scenes as well. All are assembled from my watercolor paintings. The animatic is linked in both the fic and art chapters of We Could Build a Castle, a Howl's Moving Castle/Magicians AU by myself and @magicians4time (Librarity). (Links below the images)

Here's Librarity's beautiful fic with all the illustrations embedded:

We Could Build a Castle - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's the art side, where you can see the watercolor paintings in greater detail, as well as the drawings, stills for the scene, the animatic, and behind-the-scenes info:

@magicians4time (Librarity) and I have a new chapter for you, at last! Posted for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 6: Welcome back to WIPs!

I made this animatic for the chapter. Please select the highest quality setting to clearly see the details (these are watercolor paintings).

Here's Librarity's beautiful fic with all the illustrations embedded:

We Could Build a Castle - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's the art side, where you can see everything that went into the art—the paintings, the drawings, stills from the vid, and the animatic. With a lot of behind the scenes with this one!

This might not matter to anyone but me (art purposes), but I'm identifying some of Quentin's father's model planes. The one in the foreground left here is a P-47 Thunderbolt, one of the workhorses of World War II, flown by the U.S. Army Air Forces. This one flew with the 56th Fighter Group, 61st Fighter Squadron, 8th Air Force (stationed at the RAF air bases in this order: RAF Kings Cliffe, then moved to RAF Horsham St Faith, then RAF Halesworth, and finally RAF Boxted--most likely flying out of Boxted). I can't see the serial number on the tail, so I can't be certain, but one of the most popular model planes of this type is the P-47D (serial number 42-26418) flown by Lt. Col. Francis "Gabby" Gabreski out of Boxted. If you have more info, please let me know.

By the way--Quentin's mom was wrong on so many levels. So many. Including the fact that these planes aren't a worthless waste of time, or something to quickly dispose of--not just for sentimental reasons. Q's dad's collection would indeed have been worth quite a lot. Most of all I wish Q had been able to keep at least one plane to remember his dad--no matter how much catharsis Jennifer helped him achieve that day.

Our beloved Magicians-Howl's Moving Castle AU is returning with a new chapter! @magicians4time and I are in the final stages of creating. We have a lot to share with you! In the meantime if you would like to enjoy this project that is so dear to our hearts, here are a few places to find it:

We Could Build a Castle - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

We Could Build a Castle, Ch. 5

Posted for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 6: Welcome back to WIPs!

Thanks to @magicians4time (Librarity) for writing the intense scene that inspired this piece.

Quentin transformed to an old man. I drew on a lot of different Mosaic reference shots. I wanted something similar to Sophie's response, but not exactly the same. We can see her huddled on the ground, and she does look at her hands (animation means that sometimes it's just her hands in the shot, but we know she's looking), but not this exact pose. This followed from my idea that under the weight of the magic, Quentin would slowly fall to his knees.

This is a watercolor painting. For better clarity (Tumblr is blurring the art a bit), you might want to visit the AO3 art chapter (below), where you can also see the drawing and more behind-the-scenes art info.

Here's Librarity's beautiful fic with all the illustrations embedded:

We Could Build a Castle - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's the art side, where you can see the paintings, the drawings, stills from the vid, the animatic, and behind-the-scenes:

We Could Build a Castle, Ch. 5

Posted for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 6: Welcome back to WIPs!

@magicians4time (Librarity) and I have been working on this new chapter for quite a while; but we have so much fun creating this AU. Hope you will enjoy it with us! It's a Howl's Moving Castle/Magicians AU.

Over the next few days, I'm going to be sharing the individual watercolor paintings that went into the illustrations for the chapter.

I created young Quentin from quite a lot of different reference shots. Part of his stance is from when he crowns Eliot; part is from the bonus content for Sea. 1, when he's looking at Eliot lying on Margo's bed; quite a number of others. These are his clothes from when he tested into Brakebills. His worried/scared/concerned/alarmed expression comes from so many sources in Sea. 1, but perhaps most of all from when he's reading alone in the Physical Kids Cottage and Margo spooks him the night the Trials begin.

Tumblr is sapping the resolution/details a bit, so you might want to visit the AO3 art chapter (below), where you can also see the drawing behind this watercolor painting along with more behind-the-scenes art info. But first, you may wish to enjoy Librarity's fic; it's exquisite! I love Quentin's inner voice in this AU so much.

Here's Librarity's beautiful fic with all the illustrations embedded:

We Could Build a Castle - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's the art side, where you can see everything that went into the art—the paintings, the drawings, stills from the vid, and the animatic.

Posted for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 6: Welcome back to WIPs!

I was so excited to start working on this again with my dear friend @magicians4time (Librarity). I love your imagination and sharing this world with you so much! Making WCBAC is intense but so worth it!

Here's Quentin's shop--which became the scene setting for the animatic. It was so helpful and fun to focus on the background without any of the characters involved. Honestly, it was easier than trying to draw a background around the characters. I needed to look at a lot of different frames in Howl's Moving Castle to piece this together. Then I added elements that would be meaningful to Q. There's a whole list of them in the art chapter--please take a look! That's one of Q's dad's planes on the top shelf, and Dean Fogg's glasses immediately beneath it, among other things. There's quite the list in the art chapter!

But first, here's Librarity's beautiful fic (Howl's Moving Castle/Magicians AU) with all the illustrations embedded:

We Could Build a Castle - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, Librarity - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's the art side, where you can see the watercolor paintings in greater detail, as well as the drawings, stills from the movie I made, the animatic itself, and behind-the-scenes info: