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tealinAll right, Mr Internet, I've got two pages updated and ready to put on my site as soon as you tell me why my password isn't working ...
In the meantime, I've gone back to Pratchettopia, deciding to pick up Equal Rites which I haven't read in a few years. It was weird, reading something so early in the series (and, being #3, Equal Rites is the earliest in the series that I own) .. it was almost like reading fanfic written by someone who didn't quite understand the conventions of the series. 'Granny Weatherwax would never say that!' says my brain, and 'Unseen University doesn't work that way!' I wonder if the Tiffany series is at all a sort of return to the ideas in Equal Rites but taking a similar character (young girl shows predilection for magic) in a different direction. Funny to see what twenty years of experience can do to a writer ... it makes me wonder where J.K. Rowling will be in 2027, assuming her breakout success doesn't prevent her from learning anything along the way.
Anyway, you want pictures.
Eskarina Smith, a.k.a. Esk, the Disc's first female wizard. I have trouble with ages; I haven't spent much time with kids since I was one, and I always remember my peers looking older than they objectively did. She's supposed to be eight ... does she look eight? I tried to make her younger than Hogarth (10) and older than Lilo (5) but how much?
Esk squints up at people. She almost definitely looks too young here, even to be excused by a downshot.
Esk spends too long Borrowing an eagle, and ... gets up on the wrong side of bed, as it were.
Simon, a young wizard, with a head full of brains and hay fever. I was surprised at how this turned out; I may colour him.
And because I know this is going to spawn questions about which Discworld book to read first, try going here. I should just permalink the thing...
In the meantime, I've gone back to Pratchettopia, deciding to pick up Equal Rites which I haven't read in a few years. It was weird, reading something so early in the series (and, being #3, Equal Rites is the earliest in the series that I own) .. it was almost like reading fanfic written by someone who didn't quite understand the conventions of the series. 'Granny Weatherwax would never say that!' says my brain, and 'Unseen University doesn't work that way!' I wonder if the Tiffany series is at all a sort of return to the ideas in Equal Rites but taking a similar character (young girl shows predilection for magic) in a different direction. Funny to see what twenty years of experience can do to a writer ... it makes me wonder where J.K. Rowling will be in 2027, assuming her breakout success doesn't prevent her from learning anything along the way.
Anyway, you want pictures.
Eskarina Smith, a.k.a. Esk, the Disc's first female wizard. I have trouble with ages; I haven't spent much time with kids since I was one, and I always remember my peers looking older than they objectively did. She's supposed to be eight ... does she look eight? I tried to make her younger than Hogarth (10) and older than Lilo (5) but how much?
Esk squints up at people. She almost definitely looks too young here, even to be excused by a downshot.
Esk spends too long Borrowing an eagle, and ... gets up on the wrong side of bed, as it were.
Simon, a young wizard, with a head full of brains and hay fever. I was surprised at how this turned out; I may colour him.
And because I know this is going to spawn questions about which Discworld book to read first, try going here. I should just permalink the thing...
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Date: 2007-08-19 10:35 am (UTC)Either way, very cool pics, pretty much how i pictured Esk and Simon so hurrah you rock! If Esk would have carried on in the Witches books I may have enjoyed them more heh. Oh well!