С радостью сообщаю, что сегодня разместила в открытом доступе первый том своего романа «Сказка Хрустальных гор».
Её можно почитать бесплатно тут.
Чтобы написать этот роман, мне потребовалось больше 8 лет. Это был долгий и трудный, но очень интересный путь. Прочитайте «Сказку» и, если она вам понравится, пожалуйста, поддержите её! Расскажите о ней людям: порекомендуйте произведение своим друзьям и близким, поделитесь ссылкой на него в соц.сетях, опубликуйте отзыв здесь, на AuthorToday или на других ресурсах. Спасибо.
I'm happy to announce that today I posted the first part of my novel A tale of the Crystal Mountains («Сказка Хрустальных гор»).
It's free to read here.
It took me more than 8 years to write it — it was a long and hard, but interesting journey. It's in Russian, but I hope online translators will do it justice. Please, read it, and if you like it — support it! Tell people about it: recommend it to your friends, share a link to it in social media, or write a feedback anywhere you want. Thank you.
The second (and the final) part will be posted in 2025.
Today is the 8th birthday of my future novel, “A Tale of the Crystal Mountains” / “The Crystal Mountains Tale” (“Сказка Хрустальных гор”), so I decided to make a post about it. Here are 10 facts about it:
Surprisingly, it is not a tale. It is an epic novel with a Sci-Fi bent.
If I should describe it without telling its plot, it is a story about a young man, who decides to test his conspiracy theory in very inappropriate times for the world, and his decision to take the journey to find out the truth dramatically changes his life and lives of his friends and family.
I’ve been working on it since 11/11/2016, mostly when I have free evenings after my main job. It is a long and hard journey, but small step by small step I’m moving forward, because, well, I just want to tell this story to the world. :)
For now it has more than 180k words (or 500 pages, or 1,17 mln characters with spaces). I think in the end there will be 200k words or so.
I write it in Russian, but hope to translate it into English... somehow. :D if you know a person reckless enough to try to translate it someday I’ll be glad to be acquainted
The text was rewritten thrice before 2018, when I found the right form and path to tell all I want to tell through this story. But I still edit it, because I have perfectionism in its terminal stage I want to make everything work the best way possible. God bless my editor @furciferangeli for her patience :’D
There are 9 characters, who can be considered as main throughout the story.
The story covers more than 50 years of the history of a fully fictional world and develops 7 intertwined plot lines.
If I should’ve drawn parallels between our world and the Tale’s world in the level of technological development, the story takes place mostly in 1910s-1930s.
I plan to finish and publish the first part in December of 2024 and the second part in the spring of 2025.
You can see four reckless boys, with whom we start this story, on the art above. Meet them, from left to right: Brandan Marjoram (Брандан Майоран), Riordell Moss (Риорделл Мох), Theogan Yew (Теоган Тис) and Thymean Marsh (Тимиан Марш).
spelling of the names in English can be slightly changed in the future
Characters are mine, commissioned art by amazing Vilta, who’s the official illustrator of the novel.
P.S.: If you’d want to ask me something about my novel or its characters, feel free to make it here or in the ask section, and I’ll try to answer without spoiling anything crucial. 💖
I don’t think I will ever find enough time to transfer my sketches and arts to tumblr because I’m lazy, so I’ve decided just to post my previous ArtVsArtist here.
(though I don’t consider myself an artist, I just draw sometimes as a hobby :D)
Mostly there are my original characters from my novel ‘A Tale of the Crystal Mountains’ (“Сказка Хрустальных гор”), which is in progress now, and fanarts, that I made as gifts for my friends (Good Omens, Witcher, TESO).
For now I don’t have an opportunity to use graphic tablet, so I draw scetches in pencil and then color scans/photos in digital, using mouse only.
Also, hewwo! That’s me in the middle. :3
On some of the sketches I used photos/textures for ‘coloring’ details. Below are the links to the photos/textures that I’ve used and their creators.
4th panel in 2020:
sripfoto - Milky Way galaxy with stars and space dust in the universe
1st panel in 2021:
Aleksandr Slobodianyk - White Feathers Illustration
Alexander Ant - Abstract background with blue stains
coolvector - Watercolor background with luxurious golden accents
Pixabay - Full Frame Shot of Snowflakes
Евгения Егорова - Blue and White Abstract Ice Cracks
2nd panel in 2021:
coolvector - Watercolor background with luxurious golden accents
coolvector - Watercolor background with luxurious golden accents
8th panel in 2021:
Anni Roenkae - Abstract Art Painting
Anni Roenkae - Purple Abstract Art
Brett Sayles - Milkway Galaxy
Francesco Ungaro - Starry Sky
Karolina Grabowska - Brown dye texture on white paper
Pixabay - Photo of Moon
Wendy Wei - Photo of Night Sky Full Of Stars
8th panel in 2022:
Gary Killian - Wavy lines making a circle
macrovector - Free vector glitch set on black background
