Cyrastory

AO3: Cyrastory, IG: cyrastory_art

[cyrastory]

🕯️Elspeth Spindle and the Nightmare🃏

I just finished One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig and really enjoyed the gothic, spooky nature. Elspeth is fascinating and plagued by the Nightmare.

I think I wasn’t supposed to like him but he sorta grew on me lol.

I haven’t finished Two Twisted Crowns so hopefully my drawing isn’t too far off (slide right for a spoiler).

I’ve been working on learning to draw fabrics and imagined her structured dress made from a deep, red taffeta.

Hope you like it!

[solgasart]

Sarah J. Maas, author of the ACOTAR series, once said she was an OUTLANDER fan and that Jamie Fraser was one of her inspirations when writing the books. This led ACOTAR fans to theorize that Jamie may have been the inspiration for the red-haired Lucien. 👀 Personally, I can't say for sure. 🤔 But I really liked Lucien from his first appearance in the book. I see traits in him that are reminiscent of Jamie's: devotion, self-sacrifice, a wonderful sense of humor, loyalty, the ability to listen and hear, a flexible mind, the ability to admit mistakes, the ability to understand and accept, courage, fearlessness, a willingness to give his life for his love, scars, and... fiery red hair. 😄 But if you think his storyline is similar to Jamie's, I'm sorry to disappoint you. Lucien has a completely different story and his own journey. But he's a wonderful character in the book series, one of the characters. I'm a little sad that he's featured less in the books than I initially expected, but I hope his character gets more development in future books. Haven't read ACOTAR yet? And if you have, does Lucien remind you of Jamie?🙄

[lady-embers]

𝙄𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙈𝙖𝙮 🧜‍♀️

@aggiedraws_ and I are absolutely ecstatic to present to you these two beautiful jaw dropping artworks featuring Gwyneth Berdara!! 🩵

𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒘𝒚𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑨𝒛𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒍'𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 🤭

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Artist: @aggiedraws_

Commissioner: Bookish_Embers (Me)

🚫 Please do not repost without permission, do not use/feed into any AI software, and do not use for Anti content

Characters belong to @sarahjmaas

[cyrastory]

A fun little Allie Hayes doodle I just finished. I love her so much. Full post is on my IG: cyrastory_art.

My commissions are open for June/July too!

The inspo pic is below.

[cyrastory]

🌞On His Knees✨

I really have nothing proper to say about this 🙂 You guys voted for Elucien (this pose was originally for Dean and Allie!).

I hope Lucien is a Grade A+++ yearner in the upcoming ACOTAR books.

Hope you like!

[yazthebookish]

From tangled sheets to training rings ❤️‍🔥 Gwyn and Azriel are sated, satisfied and ready to burn off some extra energy in the ring (cue the shadows helping out 👀)

Happy @gwynrielweeksofficial 🩵 artoffrostandflame strikes once again with a hot commission of Gwyn and Azriel and it was such a fun process working on this!!

[cyrastory]

I’ll never get over this art.

[thevalkyriesshadow]

Happy Gwynriel MerMay! 🧜‍♀️💖

What started out as a simple bathroom scene that quickly turned into "let's make this MerMay" to us becoming bathroom designers, thank you @cyrastory for bringing my vision to life! It was such a pleasure working on this with you

Read the fic here on AO3!

Summary: Azriel is a lighthouse keeper on the Velaris coast and after one brutal storm he spots something stranded along the cliffside. Turns out that that something is a someone -- a mermaid to be exact. He nurses her back to health in his tub and makes a connection he never saw coming.

[cyrastory]

I LOVED working on this piece!! So fun!

[cyrastory]

🗡️Emerie Week, Day 1 - Pulse of Illyria🍶

This is a recent commission for @kt-reads-things ! It was so fun to create this art for her.

Her vision started as Emerie reading in a library and morphed into a late night in her Illyrian shop, Emerie’s Em-porium!

Katie had the idea to stock the shelves with all the necessary goods - tonics, tinctures, reference books, and leathers.

Hope you like it! @emerieweekofficial

[cyrastory]

🌹The Crimson Moth🦋

I just finished Heartless Hunter by @kristenciccarelli and I ate it up in 2 days! Gideon Sharp and Rune Winters have my full attention 😏

I’m currently midway through Rebel Witch and loving it equally as much.

My favorite scene from Heartless Hunter was the tailor/measurement scene 🤭 (IYKYK).

“Gideon picked up a stool and set it down on the other side of the table, where he planted himself. He immediately realized his mistake. From here, he had a perfect view of the low scoop of her bralette, the delicate lace leaving little to the imagination. He had just measured her bust, so why it suddenly mattered, he wasn’t sure. He kept his gaze on the line of her throat instead.”

My man was struggling!!

Hope you enjoy this little collage.

[themadmorrigan]

Whoops - sorry about the double ping, @crazy-ache - I just wasn't sure the best way to do this since I was making fanart of a fanart and it wasn't one of those 'draw this your own style' challenges so... take 2: Lucien as Zuko. Original on left, my ACOTAR version on right.

(General disclaimers: The original concept was not mine, it was by Nastya Drakonoart and can be found here: https://x.com/Kulakovskaya_/status/2048765358819946615 - PLEASE make sure the original gets seen and all the love! The Lucien version was done by me (MM) on Procreate.)

[cyrastory]

🧙🏻Manon Blackbeak✨

I’ll just leave you with one question: are those shadow hands or….SHADOW hands? 😏

Hope you like it! This trend was fun but DAMN the anatomy was hard.

Character: Manon Blackbeak from Throne of Glass by Sarah J Mass

[cyrastory]

🫦Nesta’s Fantasy😏

A few stills from my recent reel (IG - cyrastory_art) for @nestaarcheronweek ! This is from Chapter 23 of ACOSF.

I really related to Nesta on this one 😬

[lyyzismess]

[gwynrielcentral]

“Salt on my tongue, she’s stunnin’ You’re the only place that I wanna be.” 🌊✨

Art by beasmaze commissioned by softlyinsteel / softlyinsteel

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[gwynrielcentral]

She survived.

Art by @bluenefelibata / bluenefelibata

Support the artist here!

[miseryreads]

꧁༒ 𝒢𝓌𝓎𝓃𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝐵𝑒𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓇𝒶 ༒꧂

Art by guwa_art Commissioned by @miseryreads

Happy Gwyn Day 🩵✨

Sometimes a character enters a story five books into the series and effortlessly becomes a fan favorite. Gwyn’s resilience, strength, loyalty, and charming irreverence were such a breath of fresh air. She charmed readers the same way she charmed the characters in ACOSF.

And with April as SA Awareness Month, in our community of mostly women, this hits close to home for many of us and it is so important to uplift one another. In the words of Gwyn Berdara, I am the rock against which the surf crashes and nothing can break me. We are more than what has happened to us and there is no formula or timeline for healing.

No reposts without permission and do not use this art for anti content please.

Hosted by @gwynweekofficial and @gwynrielcentral

[cyrastory]

🦖Gwynriel x Mothzilla🦋

(For the full animation with sound, visit my IG here)

In the spirit of Gwyn Day, I decided to create my first animation for you (go easy on me!).

Mothra is a divine guardian of nature, femininity and power which personifies Gwyn. Somehow, Mothra and Godzilla just makes sense for Gwynriel - the dichotomy of light and dark, whimsical and broody.

I hope you enjoy this little cartoon. And yes, I know Godzilla doesn’t have wings but Az does 😏

Special thanks to @acourtdelaluna for being my mothzilla inspiration and beta reviewer!! 😍

For my artist friends:

This 20 sec animation took me roughly 6 hours to create with > 100 layers, mostly using Procreate animation tool with post-processing in Edits.

@gwynrielweeksofficial

ACOTAR Sarah J Maas Gwyneth Berdara Azriel Shadowsinger Gwynriel Mothra Godzilla Mothzilla