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[tealin]

All 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...

Comments

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's not often I get to leave he first comment on a thread. Cool. You might try contacting the guy who hosts your stuff, I bet with admin rights he has the ability to change your password.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I've done that; that is the 'Mr Internet' in question.

[lareth.livejournal.com]

This was the first Discworld book I read, some thirteen years ago now. I remember having a lot of trouble tracking the relative ages of the characters, even while I was reading it.

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

hmmm she seems to short to be 8... but other than that she looks awesome!

I still have never read Discworld.... :(

[adalanne.livejournal.com]

I am so thankful I didn't start reading Pratchett's books in published order. I probably never would have gotten past The Colour of Magic, and then I would be living in a sad, ignorant little world.

His first books are very...fantasy's answer to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Amusing, yes, but lacking in substance and, indeed, plot.

I think she looks eight, but I'm no good at guessing age by appearance. And yes, do color Simon. He turned out fabulously.

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

The staff looks exactly as I pictured it. I absolutely adore the squint, and the 'waking up' moment is absolutely hilarious.

I've always pictured Simon differently. I don't know how, maybe thick glasses, but I don't think that's canon.

Also; if you think Equal Rites is bad, you should read the first two Rincewind books in the series. Death is scarily OoC.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Aw, these are adorable!

Equal Rights is better than the first two books (uh, I'm guessing. I admit that being a fan of the series I dropped the first book halfway through, and couldn't bring myself to read the second), but things really only start working in Mort.

A link I like better when pointing people to which book to read first is this (http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/609565.html).

[justicefornone.livejournal.com]

I am so totally shocked of peoples dislike of the first two books, ive read all of them in order and Colour of Magic is still one of my faves!!

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!

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[jesskat.livejournal.com]

I love the one of Esk trying to fly and the sketch of Simon. It's been so long since I read the book, it's always been one of my least favorites in the series but I suppose someday I'll have to give it a re-read.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I know I used to picture Simon basically as Neville, and was surprised to read this time that he was fairly gangly.

Yeah, I know I don't like the first two books in the series ... that's why ER is the earliest one I own. :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I have a narrow, low, and sloping forehead. Deduce what you will.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's fabulous! (naturally ... seeing who wrote it ... ) I have updated my link. Thanks!

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

Haha. He kinda does remind me of Neville.

Yeah, I got the 'first four Rincewind books all in one book.' So I have them. Definitely gets better at Sourcery.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

Hah, those're great! I love the one with flying Esk. ^^

Ah, the lack of plot in the first Pratchett books... even Terry admits it:

"turning The Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic into one movie is not very hard, largely because Colour of Magic has no discernable plot visible to the naked eye. Once this interesting point is accepted, running the two books together is not difficult :o)"

Lol. Did you know they were making a Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic movie? The only place I found info on this was at Paul Kidby's site, here: http://www.paulkidby.com/news/jun2007.html

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

Oop, I tell a lie. I found the Imdb page just now. :D http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079959/

Adding you.

[bolognarules.livejournal.com]

Complete and utterly love you're artwork. I've been a big fan of your HP site for as long as i can remember, and have used some of the pictures to decorate my sketchbook (hope you dont mind...). Hope to see Sirius as a dancing cleaner soon! hehe

And please, continue making me jealous of your art skills.

[infiniteviking]

*claps hands with glee*

The eagle. AHAHAHAHAHA.

[grafin-drachen.livejournal.com]

Gr I have searched high and low and throughout my local library and tried to get them thought inter-library loans for about a year now. No success. I first heard about the books on Tealin's Harry Potter Site, and haven't been able to find out much about them, even on the INTERNET! can anyone help? Book names? Reading order? How many are in the series??? I'd deeply appreciate any answers!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Umm... there is a link at the bottom of my entry that has all the book names and pretty good reading order suggestions.

P.S.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Nearly every book in the series also turns up in eBay's 99c Paperback collection. Jes' sayin'...

[hyel.livejournal.com]

The older witch books DO read very differently... I think Vimes, by comparison, has stayed much the same, only he gained superpowers. Sort of.

I enjoy the Tiffany Aching novels - it's been too long since I read Equal Rites to compare. Tiffany's got superpowers too. Pratchett likes to write some characters who are just invincible - they might and do show weakness, but in the end they kick ass beyond all expectation. Tiffany's a third in that series, the other two being Vimes and Granny.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Man, I keep meaning to go back and reread the early Discworld, but I keep getting distracted by books I probably should have read five-ten years ago. Woe. Love love love the Eagle!Esk picture, though XD I'm rubbish at guessing ages, but the only one where I would say she looks too young is the squinty-eyed picture.

[grafin-drachen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I managed to get one book though my library, (going postal?) and once i'm done the book im on now im going to read it.

Again HUGE thankyou!!!!!

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

heyyy what kind of pencil do you use to outline with? :o

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Usually whatever's at hand that's soft enough ... these ones were done with a Berol Canadiana (i.e. cheap pencil packet at Staples) but anything from a mechanical pencil to a 2B is acceptable. Usually there's blue underneath but I'd lost my blue pencil at the time I drew these pics and hadn't dug up another one.