Just a Side Blog dedicated exclusively to my Fanart (that I also post, alongside other more general fandom content, on my main blog @crimsoncold)
This pinned post Includes links to individual fanart pieces + links to MASTERLISTS (posts that are a compilation of links to a large collection of fanart pieces all from the same fandom or pairing)
Masterlists
CHARACTER PORTRAITS
(Organized by Fandom and/or Pairing)
ASOIAF/GOT (Gen)
ASOIAF/GOT (Jonsa)
ASOIAF/GOT (Sansa rare pairs)
[FUTURE MASTERLISTS]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
HARRY POTTER (Gen) [To Be Posted]
HARRY POTTER (Hermione Pairings) [TBP]
SHADOW & BONE (Darklina) [TBP]
STAR WARS (Gen + Obidala) [To Be Posted]
Individual Works:
LOTR: Frodo Baggins, Eowyn, Aragon
HOTD: Alicent Hightower
THE LAST OF US: Joel Miller, Get Up Joel
THE PITT: 9:00 pm, All I Need (Mohabbot)
SHADOW & BONE: Darklina (Nosferatu AU)
AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER: Surrender (Zutara)
NOSFERATU: Affliction and Appetite
ATTACK ON TITAN: Expedition Beyond the wall (Eruri)
SINNERS (2025)
THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
KATE DANIELS (from the series by Ilona Andrews)
NEVADA BAYLOR (from the Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews)
[To Be Posted Individual Works]
CHARLES AND ANNA (From the Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs) [TBP]
Fanart for Fanfic: Jonsa Fanart for Stranded by @kittykatknits
Sansa sets sail for King's Landing to marry Prince Joffrey with her bastard cousin Jon to serve as her personal shield. Then, disaster strikes and the two of them flee only to find themselves lost on a deserted island. Stranded, Sansa and Jon find themselves growing closer.
Stranded is one of my all time favorite canon divergent jonsa AUs...
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Truly one of the best "salty teens" renditions of this pairing with an beautiful story of resilience, growth, and love...
When I first decided to make fanart for this fanfic - which was months ago, sorry it took so long I got side tracked commiting jonsa crimes- I struggled to decide which particular moment/phase I wanted to capture in Jon and Sansa's efforts of building a life together under such unusual, dire, yet beautiful circumstances.
I had actually started with the latter two pieces first... but felt torn as such a significant element of this story is how young both characters are when they find themselves totally isolated trapped together on a desserted island with only eachother to rely on to survive and I felt that an art piece that reflected their youth would perhaps be a more fitting tribute than the way I depicted them originally... so I attempted a third (and then fourth) draft with slightly different character designs
... in the end I loved how each of these variations turned out and simply decided to complete and post all of them togther as a sort of chronological tribute to this pairing's story in @kittykatknits beautiful blue lagoon-esque jonsa au.
Now I assume some of you are musing to yourself (perhaps a bit baffled)... "when Crimson Cold has been promising for months she was working on/about to post fanart of various character portraits and ships ... has she really just been making four art pieces all dedicated to the same fanfic??"
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I have zero regrets... and if I had the time or the ability to go entirely without sleep I would make fanart for all the fanfics I've ever read and loved...
And you would be incorrect i was actually making five : ) see the bonus classic fairytale style book cover version below
[I really have been working on other wips though, I'll post a separate update on my other ongoing pieces soon]
But in the meantime please take this as a sign to read/reread this fanfic (or one of your older favs) and make sure to send the author some love 💙
The Fantastic Four: First Steps Vintage Poster (Marvel/F4 fanart)
"That's what family is. It's about fighting for something bigger than yourself. Connecting to something bigger than yourself"
Been many years since I last watched a marvel movie and even longer since I saw one in theaters, definitely haven't really been interested in most of the latest superhero/comic book films but this one was a surprisingly fun watch!
Certainly the best rendition of the fantastic four for me (seemed to find the right balance of campiness/humor and earnestness/sincerity that previous F4 attempts had failed to and it made the characters far more enjoyable and the story more engaging.
This is a somewhat different style of fanart from me than what I typically do... but several years ago I had done art projects that were essentially redesigning movie posters into genre-fitting vintage designs for a film studies class so when I came home and desperately wanted to challenge myself to make F4 fanart of a alternative vintage-style poster drawing l knew all it would take some careful planning and a LOT of research/inspiration taking from old sci-fi movie posters/vhs cover art to get an approximate of this style down.... which was a fun active by itself!
I really just think there is something so creative and compelling about the art/posters made for older films that is often lacking in many modern posters and wanted to make something that would draw from these and feel fitting for the style of this movie, so Enjoy!
Been absolutely obsessed with this show and really the entire ensemble of characters but I have a particular soft spot for Dr. Jack Abbot and Dr. Samira Mohan (both as individual characters and as a romantic pairing)
To celebrate this fandom/ship I've decided to make this post another combined fanart + fanfic recommendation list to shout out some of the incredible mohabbot fics out there that helped motivate me to create this fanart piece [and that I am immensely enjoying reading/rereading while waiting for season 2 to come out- which in truly a wonderful return to form for a television series release schedule will be only a year after season 1!)
Works by neonheartbeat
everything, everything
She looked over at him, startled, but Abbot wasn’t looking at her face, he was looking at her hands where they rested on the table, or maybe at something past her hands that she couldn’t see. “I thought— I mean, you wear a wedding ring,” she said hesitantly.
He looked up at Mohan, keen-eyed and sharp. “Well, I wear dog tags, too,” he said.
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Abbot and Mohan's unspoken situationship gets out of hand at work, and Mohan suggests a private conversation.
Whether or not any actual talking gets done is another question, though.
silver and red
Abbot lifted his head to look down at her. “See, that’s the post-traumatic stress. Something happens that your brain decides is a life or death situation. You have a massive adrenaline kick while it’s all happening, and then when it’s bleeding out of you on the comedown, your brain throws out anything that’s not completely vital. The amount of car crash patients we have who don’t even remember coming to the ER when they submit requests for their medical records for insurance… the brain’s a weird thing, Mohan.”
“Yeah,” she said, shooting him a look out of the side of her eyes. “It can even make you convinced you have to hurt yourself in order to seek external validation when the most logical course of action is rest.”
He snorted softly, shaking his head and leaning it back. “God,” he muttered, his cheeks stained pink. “Robby was right. You should have gone into psych.”
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A night shift from hell ends in Mohan giving Abbot a ride back to his place, where tensions finally boil over.
Works by simplyprologue / @ofhouseadama
welcome to wherever you are
By the time smoke floods the Emergency Department and the fire alarms start going off, Jack Abbot isn’t there at all.
sweetness that I took (for sweetness that she gave to me)
“And listen,” he continues, and she can watch the part of his brain prone to nervous rambling switch on. “I know the popular opinion is against my general sanity but—I swear to god, I wanna marry you Samira Mohan. And you can say no, and I’m still gonna spend the rest of my life in love with you.”
“Until your other leg falls off,” she repeats, a little distantly.
Jack nods solemnly. “The chance is slim but never zero.”
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Samira Mohan does not cope gracefully with having to wait months for her board exam results. Jack Abbot decides to distract her.
Little Bit by stormbornbxtch
When Collins pulls Mohan to the side and warns her about her new relationship with Jack, Samira tries to brush it off...mostly because there is no relationship between her and Dr. Abbot? It's strictly professional...she thinks. Sort of. Maybe not.
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“I‒I didn’t reject you,” She forces out. She watches as the words sink in, his eyes trained on her, probably feeling a number of things but conveying none of it. Then he takes a deep breath and she swallows hard. Finally, he turns away from the edge of the roof to face her completely.
“Are you only saying that because you think I’m gonna jump or…?”
She blinks, surprised. In all honesty, she’d kind of forgotten about that part.
just about starving tonight by lennynards / @lennyfromvinci
Samira's had her whole life mapped out since she was thirteen. You know what they say about best-laid plans.
i'm not the kind of girl you undo by zaynfreakingmalik
Samira Mohan has never had the time to allow herself to want anything. She's never been a dater. Can count on one hand the 'relationships' she's been in. Has sex infrequently.
And then. Well.... Then there's Jack Abbot.
Zen and the Art of Toyota Echo Maintenance by batss
"You're not meant to be flirting," Samira sulks, cheeks burning.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he says, not sounding sorry at all. "Tell you what, next time I do it, you spank me."
indulge me by HotelRaleigh / @hotelraleigh
Abbot is all restraint, all talk and no bite. Samira knows he's been flirting with her, because she'd discovered weeks ago she's been flirting right back.
And if you think about it -
Eight months is a long time with just her fingers.
"Jack." Samira says and the reaction it elicits immediately sets her heart pounding. Dr. Abbot - Jack - inhales sharply, eyes widening. He takes a step forward, pure instinct driven, before stopping himself. And, oh. There's a power that she suddenly feels, coursing through her veins and setting her blood on fire.
This place will break your heart.
But it is also full of miracles, and that is a testament to all of you coming together and doing what we do best.
Thank you for everything you did here today.
So I spent the month of March doing a The Last of Us rewatch in preparation for season 2's release and pretty much instantly decided I also wanted to do some tlou art as well... Now about 3 weeks after I started this piece its finally ready to be posted (I did not manage to meet my initial deadline to finish this portrait in time to post it for the s2 premiere but I figure getting it out by the time episode 2 aired was good enough).
I'm absolutely obsessed with this show, it's definitely one of my favorite tv shows (certainly my number one favorite from amongst anything from last decade) and I actually really loved how this portrait turned out.
I had initially considered doing more for the background of this portrait (either having a more concrete post-apocalyptic setting, having more detailed visuals, or incorporating several more moments/characters relevant to his past and his overall character arc) but in the end I liked the more simplistic and straightforward nature of this portrait and thought it best suited both the character himself and the (at times) rather bleak tone of the show.
I may also attempt an Ellie portrait in this style depending on a few things (i.e. how much time/energy/motivation I have to draw, how quickly I get to posting some of my other- mostly- finished pieces, and to some degree what sort of response this portrait receives- which does admittedly impact how motivated I am to make and share multiple fanart pieces for a specific fandom).
Anyway thanks for viewing/reading this, hope to be back with more art to share in the next week or two!
I? What have I done but what was expected of me? Forever upholding the kingdom, the family, the law. While you flout all to do all as you please. Where is duty? Where is sacrifice?
If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers. He was no true Stark, had never been one … but he could die like one. Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three.
Jonsa Fairytale AU (True Love's Kiss) by @crimsoncold
If you must mourn, my love
Mourn with the moon and the stars up above
If you must mourn
Don't do it alone
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If you must die, sweetheart
Die knowing your life was my life's best part
If you must die
Remember your life
-Keaton Henson, You
For a while l've been considering doing a Fairytale inspired jonsa AU but was never able to make up my mind in terms of which specific fairytale I wanted to base my art piece around (i could of course just do multiple ones but with already so many WIPs i didn't want to plan to add several more into my art rotation) so unable to make a decision I set the idea aside to work on other more concrete art ideas.
Then of course I saw the prompts for the Jonsa Valentine 2025 event, and it really did seem like the world itself was encouraging me to make a fairytale jonsa art piece.
This time I chose to avoid basing it on one specific fairytale and instead considered more general fairytale tropes that are found across many tales when I was brainstorming ideas on what I would make for this prompt.
In the end I decided to use the trope of True Love's Kiss (i.e. A kiss imbued with it's own sort of magic, able to break a curse, or even bring someone back from literal death) both because I thought it would be visually interesting and because I felt it would incorporate several elements of asoiaf/got canon.
(i.e. both the inherent romanticism of Jon and Sansa's personalities and storylines as well as specific events like Jon's tragic "death" and his later resurrection as well as the likely possibility of Sansa being the girl in grey fleeing north to be reunited with her "brother")
As for the related quote, I had been struggling to pick one as most of my possible choices, while admittedly poignant and romantic, felt very specific to either Jon or to Sansa in this art piece rather than being about the two of them together, so I'm actually really pleased with my final choice (lyrics from Keaton Henson's song You) as it feels like it had segments that represent the differing perspectives/wishes of both Jon and Sansa in this scenario.
I was pushing hard to have this finished in time (with the event being about a month a way when I first started this) and even though it ended up taking me a lot more time than I had hoped, I am happy with my decision to make two versions of this artwork as i feel the most satisfying element and impactful part of this fairytale trope is in the profound transformation it can create, and to do this justice I really felt I needed a before and after version of Sansa's Kiss being what brings Jon back from the dead.
Anyway thats about all the background info I'd like to dump on you about this piece so l'll end this on a thank you; specifically thank you to anyone who found, liked, or shared this piece and/or bothered to read my rambling thoughts about making this, as well as a thank you to everyone in this fandom who arranged and/or participated in this event!
Being part of a small but so dedicated fandom is just the sort of thing that makes me happy when everything else around me starts to feel harsh and distressing. I hope you all have a wonderful day and that everyone feels inspired to keep making and sharing all sorts of art and creative pieces for this fandom- it seems a very small thing in the scope of everything happening in the world and our lives but its still something that brings some much needed joy that I think many (especially myself) greatly value while also forgetting or struggling to actually find a way to adequately express our appreciation... so this is just my attempt to say thank you all for making this little slice of fandom so wonderful!
