XY Shim's Fanart

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirifa fanart

Meet the notorious crew of the Marawati! From left to right, Dalila, Amina, Timbu (with his cat, name forgotten) and Majed. From The Adventures of Amina al-Sirifa by Shannon ChakrabortyI love a good crew trope. Often goes hand in hand with the f...

The Shadow of What Was Lost

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington. You know how you finish a book and the next book isn't out yet, so you immediately jump into another series by the same author. Yeah, that's what happened here. After reading the Will of the Many, I ju...

The Will of the Many Fanart and process

The Will of the Many by James IslingtonThere's a lot of roman motifs and themes in the book. Even the cover by the publishers... I kept away from this book for a while because it looked like my college roman history textbook! Anyways, the book opens...

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

I enjoyed the character Miryem in this book. Maybe because she’s a lot like the person I married =). I know the cover has this image, but I wanted to give her more of a mic drop pose because well, that ending… 🪙🪙🪙I first set up the composition in Ble...

King of Thorns Fanart

I love fantasy books with a sweet wedding… Makes me want to cry.King of Thorns (Broken Empire 2) by Mark Lawrence Here's a series of images. I thought sequential images to illustrate a scene would be fun. This is from the end of book 2, so SPOILER AL...

Meddling Kids

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero. The Blyton Summer Detective Club is back! Woohoo!This was fun. Scooby doo reimagined with real monsters… At least there was no talking dog! 😉 The story was a bit over the top at times and felt pulpy.. so I tried to ill...

Chain-Gang All-Star

It's hammer time.Chain-Gang All-Star by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahThis was a hard book to read. It very violent and deals with justice or injustice or injustice of the justice system. I don't know... When prisoners fight to the death for entertain...

Slewfoot Fanart

Friends and laughter. Amen.Slewfoot by Brom From the opening chapter, you knew it was going to be a feast of blood and tears. And between all the blood and tears was this scene, when Abitha tries to cheer up Samson with vulgar songs, being the good p...

Lies of Locke Lamora Fanart

Berangias sisters, meet the Wicked sisters. Wicked sisters, meet the Berangias sister. Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchWho doesn’t like a good fight scene? As I was trying to think of my favorite fantasy duel, this one from The Lies of Locke Lamor...

The Return of the King Fanart

"I may not be able to carry the ring master Frodo, but I can carry you!"Sam and Frodo, the best duo ever, right?I love this line and I love Sam. But how does Sam carry Frodo? In the movies, Sam is carrying Frodo like a sack of potatoes (hairy potatoe...

The Final Empire Fanart

Steelpushing sharpens steelpushing.The Final Empire (Mistborn 1) by Brandon Sanderson This is the scene in The Final Empire when Kel is training Vin. They're steelpushing on the same coin and it bends the coins. I thought, that's a cool scene. How ca...

Someone You Can Build a Nest In Fanart

Yum. Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell This was a fun read. I wanted to capture Shesheshen and Homily's relationship. Shesheshen being the shape shifting monster with tentacles who first sees Homily as food, but then she becomes someth...

Fanart of Viv and Tandri from Legends and Lattes

Legends and Lattes Fanart

Ahhh... Coffee. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Here's how I put together the models in Blender. With the red and green skin, I needed to change that in the shader otherwise AI will be very confused with red and green skin (actually green w...

Agnieszka and Dragon from the book Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Uprooted Fanart

Dragon must be getting old… He doesn’t know where to look does he?Uprooted by Naomi NovikI like to do the composition in Blender. I know some artists will do thumbnail sketches to find their composition. But I like photography, so I prefer moving a c...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

When it’s hard to get up in the morning, just remember how hard it was for Gregor. Here’s a screenshot of behind the scenes. You can see how I block out the image in blender first. I try to do as much as I can in blender to get the lighting and ...

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