curious about Jarnu and the house 👀
"Jarnu and the house" (working title: Holmwood: A Study of Scarlett) is one of the stories my partner and I are working on together, set in our fantasy world of Ashvatyr. It's a bit of a story within a story. While reading Sherlock Holmes, Francis and I decided the characters in our universe needed their own detective stories to be fans of. Jarnu is a fantasy version of John Watson, and the snippet below shows him unsuccessfully looking for lodgings.
There were twenty-two houses on Cherryhill Lane, twenty-one of which satisfied nearly all of Jarnu's lodging requests.
Numbers 1 through 21 were well-situated and spacious, with square gardens and brightly painted doors. Number 4 was smaller than the rest of course, the paint on 12 was cracked, and 15 sported violet glowing hedges from an overuse of pruning spells. Even so, he could have accepted their deficiencies.Â
Jarnu looked down at the paper in his hand, a red circle carefully drawn around "Number Twenty-Two" in the advertisement section. He tapped his walking stick on the ground and trained his eyes on the building in question. A tight budget meant tight compromises when picking a rental but he felt, as any gentleman would agree, there were certain things which could not be borne.Â
Number 22 Cherryhill was as well situated as the others he supposed, and spacious. More spacious in fact, as it stretched above the roofs of the other houses, above even the old oak tree by Number 20, and disappeared somewhere in the clouds. It could have been an illusion. Jarnu shielded his eyes from the sun, unable to make out a roof. If so, he personally would've added some illusory flowers to the cracked grey stone, and kept off the red painted "BEWARE".
I dyed my hair for the first time! It's purple now (though it looks dark brown when not in direct sunlight)
Here's Archmage, my friend's Lancer RPG character from our Wallflower game! (@BrendonFanning on Twitter and Instagram). He's a wildcard that doesn't like to be told what to do, but deep down (Brendon says, really deep down) cares about doing the right thing and the people around him. He's been with the MSMC longest of the group, and has worked with Shrike for some years now.
On the third day of my partner’s trip here, we had sushi at a very strange establishment, and went shopping (returning with nothing but food).
Started re-watching The Witcher this weekend, so here’s bath Geralt, featuring @savagegardenaesthetic‘s handwriting
Quick little chibi for @damenai who is the reason I am now drowning in Dragon Age hell. I’m still working through Origins, but I already know I’m in for the long haul.
Marion Lavorre, Ruby of the Sea, in traditional Bulgarian garb for @cr-pinup (You can find the more risque version there - 'March 1st')
In Bulgaria, you wear white and red martenitsas in March to symbolize the coming spring.
The coloured version of Jester in a traditional Bulgarian dress! (She’s my favourite)
OC Kiss Week! @dat-ether-art​‘s lovely Aurora and my Valem! This is after the period in which Valem tried to bury himself in the backyard whenever he so much as thought of his crush. Anatomy’s a failure but at least I used purple in this drawing!
The first vampire.
She's a main character in one of the series of fantasy novels @savagegardenaesthetic and I are working on. Two companion pieces to follow soon!
I've been experimenting a little bit with style lately, and enjoying it.
I drew my friend @pomplanaki's main characters from her upcoming YA novel, "Journey to the Winterlands"! (Which FYI features adventure, friendship, and DINOSAURS, so you should definitely read it when it's out!) Top to bottom, left to right: Entilu, Aaro, Cori, and Saka.
Canadian/Bulgarian artist, writer, & linguist | Trickery domain | she/they | personal at cydareblogs
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