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And if there was something off about the innkeeper and his young apprentice--something about the silver scars Kote hid, or the graceful way Bast moved … If there was something off about the common room with no music or the grey sword mounted on the wall--the villagers didn't pay it much mind. The innkeepers were outsiders, after all, and everyone knew outsiders were a little odd.…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Kvothe/Kote and Bast from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Pat Rothfuss. Watercolor, gouache, and (some) colored pencil on watercolor paper, 9" x 12". Text overlaid in Microsoft Powerpoint
Just something to hold me over until Doors of Stone ...
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Dead animals inspired by Lauren Marx's beautifully grotesque atrophying animal art: laurenmarxartwork.deviantart.c…
Fancy Card Text by Becky S (DaFont.com) used for the text: www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=4…
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The Kingkiller Chronicle © Patrick Rothfuss. This is a derivative work based on the book series, is not official, and was created for exclusively non-commercial purposes
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This piece is stunning! I love the style of it, and Bast really looks like he belongs to the fae in this one 
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omg I adore this book, and this piece is just amazing!!!! I love your colors and composition, I am so excited to have found you and go through your gallery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So I'm a little late but my goodness this is gorgeous.
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It's never too late for lovely compliments. Thank you, I'm really flattered!
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This is so brilliant. I love the old-book look to it. And Kvothe's expression wins first prize.
I also can't wait for the next book (as probably all who have read first two ^^).
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Thank you so much! This is probably my favorite of the things I've done, but maybe only because I just finished it recently (and because I love KKC ...). Why can't Doors of Stone just be on shelves already?!
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You can be proud of yourself! It's actually also my favorite from your gallery 
Yes, I can't wait. I remember that huge amount of time as I was waiting for Wise Man's Fear. It was a pain
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This is the first time I've had to wait with everyone else for the continuation of a series, since I started reading Wheel of Time when it was nearly finished (I waited for books 12-14, but that doesn't really count). I think it might be slowly killing me.
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I know, it's driving me crazy too! But I had to wait for the last 6-7 WoT books, so I've gotten used to the feeling ... actually I think I'm going to need to find a new series to anticipate constantly once Doors of Stone comes out
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If you're into sci-fi, I can recommend an old series: The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. First book's called Hyperion. Excellent writer - the first book won the Hugo Award when it came out.
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haha oh gosh yes, my husband has been pressuring me to read it. Now that it has two votes I might have to
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Yes! Good job, Alsdale's husband! ;D
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That's wonderful. I really do love how Bast looks slightly unhuman in his whole appearance (not only his legs.) And the quote just fits so well. Like the atmosphere
I hope, we will see more more Bast in Book Three.
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Thank you
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Cannot wait until the next book. I read both Name of the Wind and Wise Mans' Fear about 4-5 times each...
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oh good, you can tell me if I got anything wrong 
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Nah, looks good to me, but I'd question the extra joint in Bast's legs. Not sure if it ever describes his legs, I know the feet are mentioned. Hmmm. I'm gonna go try and find that section now.
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No extra joints are ever mentioned, so far as I know. I included it as a concession to the way fauns are typically drawn, which is based on the backward-bending hind legs of deer, horses, etc. I think it's more elegant than just tacking the hooves to his ankles. But it may not be accurate, true :/
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Well, you could've spent that time reading books with actual literary merit or innovative ideas.
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And then what? I enjoy a wide variety of fantasy and sci-fi novels, and a good book is one you enjoy. Rothfuss is exponentially better than quite a few other 'literary' efforts I have seen, and while the ideas may not be exactly new, there is a great deal of merit and innovation in the way they are pieced together.
Not trying to convince you of course, but what would you have recommended, with 'actual literary merit or innovative ideas'?
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Well, you could start with something less pretentious like "Inkheart" or "The Neverending Story" (which utterly deconstructed the "hero" way before Rothfuss ever thought he'd be so clever as to try), or Walter Moers "Zamonien" books (think Discworld, but in German) and then go on with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, who actually knows his shit instead of completely fucking up his descriptions of music with the purplest of proses. Alternatively, read Grimms' fairy tales (or English ones), the D&D rulebook and Harry Potter to get a slight clue as to why Rothfuss did not think of anything by himself.
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Read and enjoyed Inkheart and at least one of the sequels. Never got into anything about the Neverending Story. Did read DiscWorld but never heard of Zamonien and I don't read german anyway. Never heard of Anathem or Neal Stevenson, But Steven Donaldson and all three of his Chronicles of Thomas Covenant were amazing. Read the translated unabridged Grimms fairytales, and also had a beautiful book of Hans Christian Anderson's stuff. I slogged through HP because I hate to leave a series unfinished but damned if I will count it as good literature. And never heard of the D&D rulebook.
Others I have read and enjoyed, Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, beautiful head-fuck of a ten part series. Joe Abercrombie wow'd me with his First Law trilogy and subsequent standalones. Iann Banks, for his Culture scifi series, too many others to name. There is one I enjoyed specifically because she re-worked a great many ideas into one storyline. Cecilia Dart-Thornton wrote the Bitterbynde Trilogy. It is epic high fantasy, but the way she wrote it interwove a plethora of mythological creatures from our own world, a lot of it coming from ancient celtic mythology, or post Roman Britain.
The thing is, nothing is original anymore. All ideas are recycled through peoples own perspectives, and so appear 'new' again. The problem with that is when a reader recognises it and instead of understanding it is only really an opinion, tries to compare the book to its' predecessors, often with unfavorable results. I have enjoyed or disliked every author I have read books by, on their own terms. That's why, to me, Rothfuss is a really good writer. So he isn't an expert at music; it really doesn't matter. The emotions he put into those books stands out, and you can tell he has done a lot of research, then put it into his own words in an effort to breathe life into his world. It worked for me. HP was too static a character to me, and his companions, at least Hermione, were pretty one dimensional.
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Rothfuss's work comes across as pretentious because the character he is portraying is pretentious. He never claimed to be single-handedly reinventing the genre. No work in this day and age is entirely original. Besides, I don't see why I should feel guilty about what I read in my free time. I save my guilt for work. We've all got plenty of time over the course of our lives to read a wide range of novels of varying quality.
I appreciate a good argument as much as the next person, but further comments here will be marked as spam. This is an art gallery, not a discussion board focused on the relative merits of popular fiction.
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Sorry, replied to this before I came by again and saw this message.
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No worries, I don't mind commentary about books as long as people aren't just looking for a place to complain about them
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Absolutely stunning
How long does it take for you to finish one of these paintings?
I actually used the exact same quote for my drawing of Bast, which sadly proves that all engineers think alike.
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Thanks!
The timing really depends. Some of them have to get dragged into being kicking and screaming (this one took well over 200 hrs: alsdale.deviantart.com/art/The… ). But this painting of Kvothe and Bast took only about 60 hours. That's a long time, I guess, but it practically made itself.
Maybe all engineers think alike ... or maybe great minds think alike. Same difference, right?
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wonderful style
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