#maewen singer

[tanoraqui]

Help! An Immortal Wizard Disguised as a Museum Assistant Sent Me 200 Years Into the Past, and Now Everyone Thinks I’m the God-Chosen Destined Queen and I’m Surrounded by Cute Boys!

^ the hit new* light novel by Diana Wynne Jones

*published 1996, also called The Crown of Dalemark

[ladynavona]

Jumping headfirst back into a super old fandom of mine, the Dalemark Quartet. I’ve been rereading the series lately for the first time in almost 10 years, and I thought it would be fun to try drawing the four protagonists!

A little bit on the backgrounds below the cut:

Moril: Originally I wanted to put Clennen’s cart in the background, but I realized that would be too hard to do from memory. ;;; So I went with the clearing where Clennen was buried instead. ;;;;

Mitt: Since most of Drowned Ammet takes place at sea, it only made sense to give him an ocean background. Although I did consider putting the Holy Islands in the background too.

Tanaqui: It seemed like a lot of key things happened in and around the rushes in The Spellcoats (meeting Tanamil, talking with her mother Anoreth, etc...), and Tanaqui is named for the rushes, so I went with the rushes.

Maewen: Since she traveled the green roads that Noreth was meant to travel, I decided a background with one of the paths would be best. It’s supposed to be a hill but I’m not sure how convincing of a hill the background is... ;;;;

[quietflorilegium]

"She was noticing everything just then. She felt like a hunted hare, wild big eyes staring."

Diana Wynne Jones, "The Crown of Dalemark"

[quietflorilegium]

"He was rather richly dressed in dark maroon satin, so either he was a very good minstrel or a young aristocrat posing as one. Good minstrel, Maewen decided. It was in the way his pained eyes met yours and yet looked way, way beyond, full of thoughts and knowledge and strong sadness. Someone’s let him down badly, Maewen thought when she first met those eyes. She wished she knew who had and why."

Diana Wynne Jones, "The Crown of Dalemark"

[gilaniath]

A few years down the line, Mitt and Maewen go touristing around Attolia's museums. For @elviella (and thank you for the translation).

[gilaniath]

A sketch of Maewen from the Dalemark Quartet, in which I try to draw something between her 'freckly' scared look and a pleased shy smile. I'll probably revisit her at some point in the future.