Each one has the perfect expression! And I love the multiple angles! That really gives them individuality, but they do still all look related, because of the similar eye shapes, lips, nose, eyebrows, etc. I love the detail. It's just epic. I especially love Tough, Feisty, and Ardor. you displayed the difference between timid and fragile very well! :D I love the hair accessories each one has. You did such an amazing job! :D :D :D <3
Yay! Thank you! Many days' worth of hours it took to get them to resemble each other from all those different angles, and some of them still look unrelated to me. My perception may be skewed by how long I've spent looking at them, though... @_@
They look so goooooood! Dawn and Saffron lined out so well. <3
And you flipped Ivy's hair. XD Comes out looking completely different from the WIP, but more mature, less like the teenager who wants to try out some new moves and more like a veteran fighter who sees her favorite type of target. Going into a warzone as a young adult, that's a much better way for her to be... and thinking about it that way, it's an insight into the character's past self. We already knew that she got started by getting into fights with Sky and other people she perceived as "bullies," but she's always been too light-hearted to be angry and defensive all the time. Thinking about it this way, with a step in between where she's no longer just grabbing hair but isn't very experienced yet, and is /eager/ to try things out, maybe a little apprehensive... the bullies become an excuse to practice fighting, no longer the /reason/ for her fighting... it's an interesting idea, and it makes her personality make more sense.
Toldja your art is inspirational, WIPs included. XD I really don't think I'd have thought of it that way, otherwise. <3
Ardor and Apathy. >D Awesome word match. And the fact that "Ardor" is showing her public face instead of her lonely inner face is jarring, which is /great/, because that's actually the point of her story.
Also, I love Dawn's tiara. It's spiky and obvious and /different/ from her current personality, which means she'll have to grow into it, just like her 'new' role as the one-true-princess that's she's unknowingly been all along. I love it.
*gushes more love and adoration and things, but the rest of it is repeats of past gushing and doesn't count as much* <3333
I didn't notice I'd flipped Ivy's hair XP I guess I must have flipped the pic to check for balance and forgot to change it back. Oh well! *shrug* :3 I'm glad it's inspiring! The idea of her getting into hair-pulling catfights with Sky is hilarious. XD "HISSSS!"
Oh my goodness! hair pulling AND biting!? Catfight indeed! I liked the description of the winter dragon. n_n I went through and read or re-read most of what you've posted for the princesses...it's kind of a depressing story. D: Their whole world falls apart once the Succession is announced...I was really surprised, actually, that Saffron slit her wrist. I hoped to see her redeemed. And I didn't read all of it because the mature warning scared me off, but why exactly was turning to prostitution a form of redemption for Violet? :? To me, that would be much more of a step backward than forward from the drug problem. I don't understand. After spending so many hours staring at these girls drawing them, I guess I may have become a tiny bit attached. D:
I don't know why it failed to post, there was no error message. >.< Grr.
...Here's an extremely short and undetailed version of it:
~The Mirror universe is tied to the Canon universe, and in the Canon universe, one of the seven sisters (Eulalia Danae's characters who the seven princesses were inspired by) died. Therefore, one of the seven princesses had to die. Unfortunately.
~Any of them could have died, because all of them had stories of redemption and just generally growing up and finding their own place in the world. I actually wanted to kill off Violet at first, because I didn't like her-- and I do mean "kill off" in her case, because she'd have been a token fall guy character, two-dimensional and /obviously/ disliked by the author. Violet got to live because I can't stand it when writer's put those characters in a book and dare to publish it. It's sloppy writing and a sign that someone doesn't necessarily care enough to do the job right.
~In the end, Saffron died because she was the one who was /going/ to, at some point, and everyone else's death would be token and senseless. I can't write about someone ODing or being mortally wounded or catching some deadly disease from a terminal patient. I can't write about being in the wrong place at the wrong time or making a stupid fatal mistake due to ignorance. I can't give those things meaning. I can't tell you what those things are like. I can't make that real. Suicide is real. I like Saffron, too... but if she will find redemption and an ease in her soul, it will be because of her effect on other people's lives, not a change in her own life.
~Violet is an extreme, hands-down /the/ most extreme of all of them. Her story isn't about going UP from drug use, it's about going DOWN from being a princess. She just received the /ultimate/ rejection... and after the shock wears off, she refuses to accept that. She gives up everything she has, everything she has been, every place and person she's ever known, because she's stripping away her past life. She's starting over as a new person (as much as she can figure out how to) so that she can learn to become a worthier person in her god's eyes. Mind you, it doesn't actually work that way, in real life OR in Mirror... but so far, the Ebony quartet is my favorite story in the universe, and that has a lot to do with how black and white it /isn't/. It gets deep, it gets harsh, and it gets messy-- and in the end, there is no one you'd want by your side at the End of Days more than the woman you see by the end.
Trust me. It's always darkest before the dawn.
Besides-- Succession is the catalyst for the major life changes that /are/ each of their stories. xD Of course it's depressing-- stories are tales of conflict resolution, there's nothing to write about if there are no problems! It does get better. Holly ends up with a classic coming-of-age story (although very much a college-age one, not a teenager one), Eve's has dark twists but is downright comical and ends that way, Dawn... I wrote Dawn's down somewhere, but I actually forget... Sky lightens up and gets a boyfriend, Ivy survives a war long enough to learn some humility and see her cousin back on her throne, Violet /really/ turns it around (much more than it looks like, I promise), and Saffron... Saffron's story is mostly untold. But that, too, might surprise you. I hope it will, because if I can surprise the artist and friend who I've told this much to, I'll KNOW I've done my job! xD
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These are SO GORGEOUS. LOVE.
Each one has the perfect expression! And I love the multiple angles! That really gives them individuality, but they do still all look related, because of the similar eye shapes, lips, nose, eyebrows, etc. I love the detail. It's just epic. I especially love Tough, Feisty, and Ardor. you displayed the difference between timid and fragile very well! :D I love the hair accessories each one has. You did such an amazing job! :D :D :D <3
Yay! Thank you! Many days' worth of hours it took to get them to resemble each other from all those different angles, and some of them still look unrelated to me. My perception may be skewed by how long I've spent looking at them, though... @_@
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They look so goooooood! Dawn and Saffron lined out so well. <3
And you flipped Ivy's hair. XD Comes out looking completely different from the WIP, but more mature, less like the teenager who wants to try out some new moves and more like a veteran fighter who sees her favorite type of target. Going into a warzone as a young adult, that's a much better way for her to be... and thinking about it that way, it's an insight into the character's past self. We already knew that she got started by getting into fights with Sky and other people she perceived as "bullies," but she's always been too light-hearted to be angry and defensive all the time. Thinking about it this way, with a step in between where she's no longer just grabbing hair but isn't very experienced yet, and is /eager/ to try things out, maybe a little apprehensive... the bullies become an excuse to practice fighting, no longer the /reason/ for her fighting... it's an interesting idea, and it makes her personality make more sense.
Toldja your art is inspirational, WIPs included. XD I really don't think I'd have thought of it that way, otherwise. <3
Ardor and Apathy. >D Awesome word match. And the fact that "Ardor" is showing her public face instead of her lonely inner face is jarring, which is /great/, because that's actually the point of her story.
Also, I love Dawn's tiara. It's spiky and obvious and /different/ from her current personality, which means she'll have to grow into it, just like her 'new' role as the one-true-princess that's she's unknowingly been all along. I love it.
*gushes more love and adoration and things, but the rest of it is repeats of past gushing and doesn't count as much* <3333
I didn't notice I'd flipped Ivy's hair XP I guess I must have flipped the pic to check for balance and forgot to change it back. Oh well! *shrug* :3 I'm glad it's inspiring! The idea of her getting into hair-pulling catfights with Sky is hilarious. XD "HISSSS!"
I totally have to write them having a catfight now. >D
http://arynchris.deviantart.com/art/Mirror-Ivy-Winter-Bully-287615834
It's not amazing... pretty rough. (Then again, every bit of lit I post online is rough.) And the catfight is very short. But still, I like it. ^_^
Thank you.
Oh my goodness! hair pulling AND biting!? Catfight indeed! I liked the description of the winter dragon. n_n I went through and read or re-read most of what you've posted for the princesses...it's kind of a depressing story. D: Their whole world falls apart once the Succession is announced...I was really surprised, actually, that Saffron slit her wrist. I hoped to see her redeemed. And I didn't read all of it because the mature warning scared me off, but why exactly was turning to prostitution a form of redemption for Violet? :? To me, that would be much more of a step backward than forward from the drug problem. I don't understand. After spending so many hours staring at these girls drawing them, I guess I may have become a tiny bit attached. D:
I just posted.
A very long reply.
It didn't send, but it explained /everything/.
I don't know why it failed to post, there was no error message. >.< Grr.
...Here's an extremely short and undetailed version of it:
~The Mirror universe is tied to the Canon universe, and in the Canon universe, one of the seven sisters (Eulalia Danae's characters who the seven princesses were inspired by) died. Therefore, one of the seven princesses had to die. Unfortunately.
~Any of them could have died, because all of them had stories of redemption and just generally growing up and finding their own place in the world. I actually wanted to kill off Violet at first, because I didn't like her-- and I do mean "kill off" in her case, because she'd have been a token fall guy character, two-dimensional and /obviously/ disliked by the author. Violet got to live because I can't stand it when writer's put those characters in a book and dare to publish it. It's sloppy writing and a sign that someone doesn't necessarily care enough to do the job right.
~In the end, Saffron died because she was the one who was /going/ to, at some point, and everyone else's death would be token and senseless. I can't write about someone ODing or being mortally wounded or catching some deadly disease from a terminal patient. I can't write about being in the wrong place at the wrong time or making a stupid fatal mistake due to ignorance. I can't give those things meaning. I can't tell you what those things are like. I can't make that real. Suicide is real. I like Saffron, too... but if she will find redemption and an ease in her soul, it will be because of her effect on other people's lives, not a change in her own life.
~Violet is an extreme, hands-down /the/ most extreme of all of them. Her story isn't about going UP from drug use, it's about going DOWN from being a princess. She just received the /ultimate/ rejection... and after the shock wears off, she refuses to accept that. She gives up everything she has, everything she has been, every place and person she's ever known, because she's stripping away her past life. She's starting over as a new person (as much as she can figure out how to) so that she can learn to become a worthier person in her god's eyes. Mind you, it doesn't actually work that way, in real life OR in Mirror... but so far, the Ebony quartet is my favorite story in the universe, and that has a lot to do with how black and white it /isn't/. It gets deep, it gets harsh, and it gets messy-- and in the end, there is no one you'd want by your side at the End of Days more than the woman you see by the end.
Trust me. It's always darkest before the dawn.
Besides-- Succession is the catalyst for the major life changes that /are/ each of their stories. xD Of course it's depressing-- stories are tales of conflict resolution, there's nothing to write about if there are no problems! It does get better. Holly ends up with a classic coming-of-age story (although very much a college-age one, not a teenager one), Eve's has dark twists but is downright comical and ends that way, Dawn... I wrote Dawn's down somewhere, but I actually forget... Sky lightens up and gets a boyfriend, Ivy survives a war long enough to learn some humility and see her cousin back on her throne, Violet /really/ turns it around (much more than it looks like, I promise), and Saffron... Saffron's story is mostly untold. But that, too, might surprise you. I hope it will, because if I can surprise the artist and friend who I've told this much to, I'll KNOW I've done my job! xD
I guess if one of them had to die I'd want it to be Saffron anyway. I mean, she's practically been dead for years, by her own choice.
Exactly. :)
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