Art: help

[dragonlady7]

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Another thing that is tormenting me is that I want more fanart to exist in the world, I have had people offer to draw me fanart even! which like! holy shit! what a great idea! what a fantastically kind thing to offer! but I am such a gremlin that the stages to connect a desire with an action via so much as reaching out to people who could make these things happen, seems like this enormous void. I currently have like six posts in drafts that are me attempting to word my way around this obstacle in various ways, including asks half-drafted to people, but I don’t know where to start. So, know, this is a thing about which I am thinking, but I am so bad at thinking that I literally cannot do more than nebulously think “yes” about the concept. Yes! Yes! Details? Oh uh.

It’s like– well so most of my current ideas are Aiden, Lambert, Keira, Eskel, Ciri, and various OCs at the moment, but I know I wrote a bunch of Geralt and Jaskier and yet it’s like… no… illustratable moments happened… in any of those stories… and I can’t remember…. I actually sat down and reread a bunch of MDS to try to remind myself about that series but it’s just gone through my mind like water. As far as I can tell that story’s a featureless gray void, folks, in which nothing visual happened. People. Talked? Went places? Did things? There was a horse in it, probably? So. Phooey. IDK why y’all leave so many nice comments on a featureless gray void but I appreciate you. I have no ideas.

(I do have a very specific idea, partly helped along by a wonderful description from some-stars, about an illustration of Lambert, Keira, and Aiden, but that one’s so detailed and persnickety I should probably actually get my shit together and commission it, but I also, in case you were wondering if a post can have a theme, Do Not Know How To Go About Doing That Either. [Whomst? Howmst! Whenmst?!] Also I am actually possibly technically deranged about money, like whatever the technical definition is of ‘deranged’ that’s me, on this issue, so the thought of that also puts a great deal of pressure on the tiny jelly-like structures of my brain. I! have! money! I do! I really do! I am earning money right this second, believe it or not! [I am working, I have like five processes running, genuinely] I– can’t stop panicking about it though! Weird how not getting paid for eight months made me really fucking weird about money. Hilarious. Ha. Ha ha. Ha. Yeah!)

But I am trying, and it is taking up most of my brain now, to bring together What [Who] Lambert Did On His Winter Vacation, and tie it into The Mystery Of The Missing Eskel, and Ciri’s First Forays Into Sugar Momming Her Hot Personal Assistant, and Meanwhile What Are Yennefer, Geralt, and Jaskier doing, so that all of them can come together into a single story i haven’t yet even fucking outlined, so. (Oh yeah Triss is in it too. Show Triss, this isn’t a horror story.)

why! is this! so stressful! i don’t know! but it is! all of it!

Listen I’ve been trying to just– make myself cry it out for like. However many months it’s been now since the world ended. And I can’t. It doesn’t work. So. I don’t know. I don’t know how any of this works. I’m just going to, I dunno, keep keeping on, which is what people do, I think.

Please tell me, though. If you have read any of my Witcher writing, https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&include_work_search%5Bfandom_ids%5D%5B%5D=299357&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&user_id=bomberqueen17 let’s imagine you’re an editor and you’re putting together a print version of it, what would you envision for like, the cover, or an illustrated plate. What single moment of any of those fics– let’s not specify the series or anything, maybe they’re a short story collected in a magazine or something, maybe there’s a set of several volumes, who knows, this is the world of imagination and we can do what we want– what would you have illustrated, and what would it look like? (Your picture was not posted)

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[buttonsbeadslace]

Some illustrated plate ideas:

- The fat baby song (Jaskier playing & singing to the mom holding the baby, I guess, with Geralt in the background)

- Geralt and Ciri arriving at Kaer Morhen the first time, in that huge blizzard- maybe them resting under quen, that’d be a cool visual effect

- Lambert doing Ciri’s makeup

- Eskel baking bread in the Kaer Morhen kitchen, I think that’s a good picture to introduce him as a character

- Yennefer portaling into Jaskier’s faculty meeting, with papers flying everywhere and the other professors looking shocked