#shannonmessenger

[the-colourful-witch]

I’ve been working on a character design project. It’s based on the bookseries Keeper of the Lost Cities. I’ve learned so much about shape language, body types, diversity and expressions. There is still a lot to learn, but I like where I’m heading. 

[when-all-hope-feels-lost]

favourite things about christmas || keeper gang

sophie: she looks forward to all of the lights; as a kid, christmas music was always TOO LOUD but the lights were always so pretty and helped distract her from the blaring thoughts of the kids around her

biana: winter fashion is so soft and cosy and she loves getting her friends matching sweaters and cute socks. it’s such a pretty time of year she loves sharing that with those she loves

linh: she loves the snow; as a hydrokinetic, she is hyper aware of the water crystals in snowflakes and it’s so soothing to feel the cool drops of ice around her and kissing her skin. she also tries to go ice skating with tam whenever she can convince him to go with her

tam: he actually loves snowboarding and lives for the thrill of it; he tried reaching linh, but she was a bit scared, so he goes ice skating with her from time to time and enjoys it despite his griping

keefe: being with friends; during winter holidays, he spends as little time at home as possible, tagging along with linh when she goes ice skating, brainstorming light setups with dex, even being biana’s model whenever she goes shopping for the guys’ gifts

dex: he, like sophie, loves the lights and always drops by havenfield to set up elaborate lights and decorations all around the pastures and setting up warm lights for the many nights he and his friends stay up all night outside

fitz: he never knows what presents to get his friends, so he spends the weeks leading up to christmas mastering some new sweet treat to present his friends on christmas

[ancientrosetta]

Fanart of Tam and Linh Song from the series Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger, as social media celebrities!

Directly inspired from @silveny-dreams‘s headcanon.

[skim-milk]

Shannon-

I love how the KOTLC fandom was just really happy the last few months like-

 ‘wow I’m super excited for Legacy what do you think it’ll be about’ 

and 

‘aww the new portraits are so beautiful yay for our under-appreciated characters’ 

and then Shannon f*cked us up with that one-two punch with the Legacy excerpt and Keefe’s short story.

And now we’re all collectively sh*tting ourselves over our poor boi like what did he ever do to deserve this. 

[kotlc-art-and-posts]

I bring you, Pez Dex (kind sounds like Fedex...)

[just-your-average-alicorn]

Me reading all the 10 year old’s #Sokeefeforlife😤💪🏻 comments on Shannon’s Instagram post

[the-one-and-only-elwin]

Sophie: Biana asked me to stop singing songs from Shrek and I thought she was kidding

Sophie: BUT THEN I SAW HER FACE

Dex, appearing out of nowhere: BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM

[niinnia]

Yas !

Sophie Foster !

Art in almost 5 hours.

Caracter from @shannonmessenger ‘s book