Sweetly Fierce {art}

[altocello]

She's sweet and soft spoken, right up until you try to harm the books. She'll protect the flame of knowledge, no matter the cost.

Created for #TheWeltersChallenge 2019 week 1 challenge, The Library.

Comments, kudos, likes, & RT's are love! Please feed the artist if you enjoy what you see <3

Drawn in PS with a Wacom Bamboo tablet. This is a non-profit fanwork; no harm intended, no money made.



Also at AO3 | DA | Tumblr | Pillowfort

I've had a lot of fun going through the characters and trying to match up their personalities/choices with particular suits. Diamonds were originally Coins, and will be folks with a decided mercenary streak. Hearts are derived from Cups. Spades were originally swords, so you can see where I'd go with that.

Clubs are, well, clubs. Or clovers! So these characters are a mix, gentle when they can be, forceful when not.

If you'd like to know more about the evolution of the modern deck of cards, there's a helpful article at wikipedia.

Many thanks as always to my beta, Amphigoury, and cheerleader Jelazakazone. More thanks are due to @HouseAtMurs and @TheWeltersChallenge for encouraging me to keep going on the series and get this piece done!

Comments

[mrs_leary]

Wow! Excellent work, as ever! I am not familiar with The Magicians at all, but your Zelda is just chock full of personality in her own right. I love the expression on her face - she's just about to turn towards us and smile, smirk, say something, I'm not sure what or whether it will be positive or negative. Fantastic sense of imminent action. And the arms and hands - how intriguing! The overall effect has a kind of creepy feel to it, but then focusing in on just one of the figures brings it back to reality, as it were. Another aspect of her being a club-like mix of different things. Excellently done!

[altocello]

Thank you, darling! You're so very kind to be so consistent in your commentary on these works, especially considering you're not even in the fandom. I appreciate it so much! <3

The arms and hands are a choice made by the actress, who is very intentional in her pose and movements. I love how identifiable her character is, JUST by the way she holds herself. It's jarring to see the actress out of character b/c she's so consistent with this body language on camera. A bit like hearing Colin's native accent after watching so much Merlin, lol!

I had a moment, after I mirrored the drawing, where I stepped back and thought that I'd gone and drawn a Hindu goddess without really meaning to, but then decided that I rather liked the effect on the whole. I'm glad you liked it too!