#dax jones

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Now that Ali has gotten her copy, I can finally post the art I made for the Shapeshifter fanbook yay!!!!!!!!!!!! Major yapping about it under the cut

If you are NOT a shapeshifter fan and art utterly confused, I'll fill you in. The Shapeshifter is a book series written by Ali Sparkes, and is a beloved favourite from my childhood, I do recommend a read of at least the first book! (And when you're finished why not pop in our discord to yap about it lol) This drawing shows the ghostly character Wolf Boy in one of the scenes of the 2nd book, by his feet are piles of spirit communication notes. He scratches the trunk of an ancient apple tree three times, clumps of mistletoe hanging in their branches.

This piece was a DOOZY, I had several thumbnails of drawings I wanted to do months in advance and none of them were really hitting that sweet spot. After like two months of indecision it was just one of those things where you just had to pick one and start somewhere, there was no vision or anything just pure trust in the process. At first it was going to be super realistic and lined until I woke up one day and decided to scrap it all and go crazy self-indulgent, all-in-all it took about two weeks to finish! Would have maybe(?) taken less time to do if I hadn't also decided to be a silly goober and signed myself up to do fox drawings for all of the section pages as well HA, it was worth it in the end!

I really want to give a shoutout to everybody in the Shapeshifter discord, especially Andrew who put this whole thing together, we really did good guys. Everyone should feel so proud of themselves, it really fills my heart in a way that's hard to describe. I love you all and everything we've made together :']

[caught-tiger]

Scrumbo supreme

[yazcatrazz]

Daxesh... My son...

[lepidopoda]

shoutout to the shapeshifter discord for hyping me up to get a tumblr!

[dustiedoodles]

5. Dax Jones - Strirring the Storm by Ali Sparkes

I read the first in the shapeshifter series as a teen but never got round to reading the rest, now I've been able to get them from the library and have really enjoyed the series. This was a great finale to the original series and I really loved the core character group. (You'll notice this looks incredibly similar to the previous portrait I did of Dax, I just wanted to draw him again in a fractionally different style but I liked the colours and background of the original so they carried along too :))

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pretending the cola kids are older than they are because i refuse to accept that dax got literally crucified at thirteen/fourteen. first of all horrible age to be in general

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Hello! If you are a fan of the Shapeshifter Series by Ali Sparkes and would like to be involved in a fan project, please dm me!

[musicoftheheart]

this is going to a very niche audience but if any marauders fan has read the shapeshifter series by ali sparkes, thoughts on an au???

remus as dax obv, sirius as gideon, james as barry (bc invisibility cloak??) and then maybe lily and marlene both taking on a mix of mia and lisa. peter as clive too i reckon. snape as spook (and then tie in his friendship with lily as spook's friendship/romantic interest in mia!!)

book 1 with dumbledore being the villain (as the og headmaster, i dont remember his name but the guy who charms people) then minnie (as the lovely french teacher) stepping in as headmistress (she might also have to take on owen's role too bc i cant think of who else could tbh)

OR poppy being owen because the bond she and remus have is so perfect as owen and dax, then have minnie take on the role that tyrone has in one of the later books

then book 2 bringing in regulus as luke and he and james bond over the fact sirius is too busy with family member 3 (i was thinking maybe bellatrix as catherine even though theyre cousins not siblings, but she gives the vibes yk)

i could 100% write this once i finish my current wips and include all six books plus the spinoff series unleashed. if yall wanna know more please say i could talk about it forever