SHACKELFORCE

Just wanna learn alchemy, so I'll settle for making comics. Commission Status: OPEN.

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I wish I was this cat.

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Does anyone know what the scene from Crowd of Thousands in the Anastasia musical looks like? Favorite song and haven’t seen it yet and I want to draw a moment from it because it’s the best thing ever someone help me please please.

[kharamagic]

These caps from the end of the press reel are from that scene!

Anya’s just had a nightmare about her family’s deaths. Dmitry is there to comfort her (much like the scene from the animated film) and starts to tell her a story. When Anya remembers Dmitry bowing that day, she’s overjoyed to have found her love at last. In the first cap, they’re singing the last line:

But I knew even then…in a crowd of thousands, I’d find you again…

..and Dmitry’s happy too, but he now knows that she’s way out of his league.

So as the song ends they gravitate toward each other and nearly kiss, but nope! Dmitry pulls back and bows to her again, saying “Your Highness…” in that second cap, in that sad, resigned tone.

[shackelforce]

Oh my gosh, thank you. This is exactly what I needed... aside from seeing the real thing. I really appreciate it.

[shackelforce]

Does anyone know what the scene from Crowd of Thousands in the Anastasia musical looks like? Favorite song and haven’t seen it yet and I want to draw a moment from it because it’s the best thing ever someone help me please please.

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[eclecticwiccan]

IMPORTANT

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V TRUE.

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Is me. 

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Here’s a redesign of Hermione that I did. I’m obsessed with jumpsuits so I threw one on her and gave her a giant Santa bag so she can pursue her ideals as CEO of S.P.E.W.

[shackelforce]

Turkey is out of the oven 🦃 I’m probably going to print this to stick in all of my books and mark my territory. Does anyone else have books anymore or are we past all that? • • • • • #art #artist #draw #drawing #ink #inking #exlibris #book #books #booklovers #paper #sword #conquer #badass #queen #illustration #digitalart #bookplate (at Richmond, Virginia)

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ITS MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY SO I DREW THIS (younger sister, 14; older sister, 22)

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ITS MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY SO I DREW THIS (younger sister, 14; older sister, 22)

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More inktober! Third panel in my inktober comic.

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Inktober 2/31 "Gather ye round, for there's a story to tell // And like all good stories, it begins in hell." Tomorrow I'll post the next bit of the story! Carve your pumpkins, people.

[shackelforce]

HAPPY INKTOBER. I'll be posting an inktober image every day to explain the tale behind the reason we carve our pumpkins. Get pumped, get excited, get scared!

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ZIIIIIING- I’m still working on this but here’s some eye candy.

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"FOOL." Too much soul eater, probably.

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Make sure you click on these to see the full photo- here are two of my pieces from the “Wishing Tree” Series- on display tonight at the front gallery on 141 W21st Street in NYC! Come see! I also have some funny comics up.

“Wishes come true, not free.” 

[shackelforce]

“I remember my mother towards the end, folding the tablecloth after dinner so carefully, as if it were a flag of a country that no longer existed, but had once ruled the world.” -Jim Moore, “Love in the Ruins.”

Illo is mine, the poem is not- enjoy! :)

[shackelforce]

With this blood, with this heart, I wish for the dream I fear to start.

From these eyes, now I see though wishes may come true, they never come free.

-From “the Wishing Tree,” by Courtney Shackelford

Here is the first of five pieces in a series I am doing. The whole body of work is entitled, “the Wishing Tree.” Accompanying these pieces with be a short story about a woman who wants more than anything a child of her own and her determination to make that wish come true. It is a story about love, despair, and what it means to get what we really ask for. It is about the nature of wanting and wishes- because though wishes may come true, they never come free.

Follow http://shackelforce.tumblr.com to keep up with “the Wishing Tree.”