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Okay... The characters from Tamora Pierce's Winding Circle, Circle of Magic, Circle Opens -take your pick- Quartet books.

We have the four kids and their respective teachers:

Niklaren Goldeye
Trisana Chandler
Briar Moss
Dedicate Rosethorn
Dedicate Lark
Sandrilene fa Toren
Daja Kisubo
Dedicate Frostpine

I started this thing Friday [1/19] and finished today [1/21], and it came about after my looking up fan art of it on here while waiting for my mom to pick me up [curse you Artists out there who inspire me to try my hand at these characters!]

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with these guys. Daja and Frostpine are the worst in my opinion and I believe it's because I drew them last, and hence was getting tire of it by then [but they were outline and colored third!] ... The order went for drawing them: Briar and Rosethorn [I am very proud of them!], Lark and Sandry, Niko and Tris, and Daja and Frostpine. Coloring went pretty much the same order but switch the last two around. I wasn't sure if I was going to do any shading to begin with but I ended up doing some and it turned out nice so I continued with it.

For their colors, I think I'm close to how they are described in the books. Niko's eyes were just described as being dark or black, Lark's eyes I didn't find so I made a guess, I didn't find if it ever stated what color Frostpine's hair is [I visualize it all white in my head but for this I decided to do black with white]

I *tried* to do a background, I really did, but gave up and just went with the cheaters route by using their Bumpy circle thing ... although it took me FOREVER to figure out how to place it.

There are probably a lot of mistakes in this, feel free to point them out, I however reserve the right to laugh, shake my head and walk away [and then come back later and see what you mean]. As after three days I'm very tired of looking at these eight!

Plus, doing these at home on my mom's computer I've come to realize how much I LOVE my tablet [which is at school hooked up to my computer] and HATE working by just mouse.
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Comments: 31

kccake518 [2014-09-16 19:53:41 +0000 UTC]

Tris is my fav out of all of them. I always picture Rosethorn with dark hair, and lark with blond hair. The one thing i did notice is that Briar does not have the flowers tattoos on his hands. 

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cha29 In reply to kccake518 [2014-09-18 13:02:26 +0000 UTC]

This was drawn after I had read the first couple books, so either before the mention of the tattoos being more complicated (noticeable) or at the time I didn't think they would be (given position of hands), possibly a mixture of both. Honestly, I don't recall exactly, but when I did this one I was trying to stay true to the content in the book--meaning I looked up descriptions for features and colors.

Thank you for the comment

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ElliryanaLayloken [2012-08-09 22:46:12 +0000 UTC]

You totally captured Briar. I love it.

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Katie-Jane8 [2012-04-17 18:52:26 +0000 UTC]

So very cool

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TheArtistic1 [2012-03-14 23:25:07 +0000 UTC]

why is Frostpine kind of green?

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Mangaka-Otaku [2012-02-25 12:51:38 +0000 UTC]

I like it, and I hope you don't take offense, but the adults all look a little old to me.

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StormAlert [2011-10-29 02:59:12 +0000 UTC]

LOVE Briar!!! You captured his character so well!!!!
I love the rest of it too, but Briar's my favorite XD

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TimeLord10WizardMoon [2011-01-29 23:14:22 +0000 UTC]

This is very nice.

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Gigglepud [2010-11-20 12:00:28 +0000 UTC]

LOVE it but, I never knew Tris had glasses.... and Niklaren is a lot older than I imagined, but whatever, I still love it and it is your work afterall

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VampireHuntress5790 [2010-08-05 23:14:30 +0000 UTC]

My only complaint is that Briar doesn't have his Tatoos.

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Kimai17 [2010-07-18 09:40:45 +0000 UTC]

you protray them very nicely

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Knight-of-Khenma [2010-05-18 23:37:23 +0000 UTC]

I love Briar's expression

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yoshion7 [2010-01-22 18:23:41 +0000 UTC]

I jsut love this great job

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neko-keira-chan [2009-11-06 17:16:13 +0000 UTC]

...I could've sworn Sandry had brown hair...Oh Well, you're not the only one to draw her like that. And I love Your artwork, don't let my opening comment fool you.

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Ticonda [2009-11-06 05:12:01 +0000 UTC]

It's funny you say you didn't like Frostpine because he's my favorite out of all of these. I liked him a lot in the books too, though, so maybe I'm just prejudiced.

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Lizard11 [2009-07-15 04:08:15 +0000 UTC]

ok i LOVVVEEEEE briar but i reckon he looks a bit young.
i have some complaints though:
sandry's hair looks abit gray, i dont think rosethorns hair was supposed to be red, but oh well. and also i imagined nicklaren younger.
BUt otherwise I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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5JFC21 [2008-11-23 12:37:18 +0000 UTC]

it's really good....but i have just one small question...why is frostpine a greenish black color?

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cha29 In reply to 5JFC21 [2008-11-23 14:57:47 +0000 UTC]

Hm, the "greenish" part of his skin color is not very strong on my computer, and I did that to set apart his skin tone from Daja's, as I imagine him darker than her, but I didn't want to go dark dark brown/almost black.

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Bethluvsbooks [2008-10-01 01:34:38 +0000 UTC]

Does Nicko have a mustache? i'm pretty sure he was clean-shaven in the books.....

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cha29 In reply to Bethluvsbooks [2008-10-01 02:14:02 +0000 UTC]

Alas, I don't have my books here with me at College, but when I was drawing them, I took pains to look through the books for descriptions and even writing this I do remember some mention of a mustache of some form at some point, or maybe that is how I interpreted it. I couldn't say which book it would be in, though I believe I looked primarily in the first quartet, unless I had trouble finding particular information, such as Lark's eyes and Frostpine's hair.

Either way, this is merely my representation and it may or may not be correct, as we only have the words on the page to go off of. Though looking at this now, I think I want to redraw them -shrugs-

Thank you for the comment

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RipVanWinkle316 [2008-08-08 15:44:53 +0000 UTC]

Rosethorn has Brown hair...

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cha29 In reply to RipVanWinkle316 [2008-08-08 19:26:18 +0000 UTC]

Actually, it's Auburn:

"About thirty, she had broad shoulders, long legs, and a square, firm jaw. Her auburn hair was trimmed close to her head on the sides, and parted neatly on the left." --- Sandry's Book, soft cover, chapter 4, page 69

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jack-dawsons-girl [2008-02-29 06:50:54 +0000 UTC]

Woah, this is fantastic. It's absolutely gorgeous, thank you! I love how someone finally captured the way I see the characters! Briar looks cute there, but I thought of him slightly different... ah well, different imaginations.

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vgaer [2007-08-23 22:29:59 +0000 UTC]

I love this a lot, my favorite is Briar.

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jack-dawsons-girl In reply to vgaer [2008-02-29 06:51:24 +0000 UTC]

How can your favourite NOT be Briar???

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vgaer In reply to jack-dawsons-girl [2008-02-29 22:50:55 +0000 UTC]

You have a point.

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amber-ruler5 [2007-06-03 07:33:16 +0000 UTC]

I like them as well! It doesn't look as bad as you think it does, really.

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jack-dawsons-girl In reply to amber-ruler5 [2008-02-29 06:51:14 +0000 UTC]

I call for niceness.

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bloodlust3910 [2007-02-12 01:59:55 +0000 UTC]

oh! ohohohoh!! It's the whole gang!! OMG!! Lurves it!! I'm hooked on those books at the moment!! Oh my U really depicted their looks!! oh my tis soo good!

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cha29 In reply to bloodlust3910 [2007-02-12 03:20:32 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it ^_^ and I'm also happy you commented ... I've been waiting/wanting someone to comment on it -grins-

Thank you ... I tried me best to get their looks almost right

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bloodlust3910 In reply to cha29 [2007-02-15 00:17:57 +0000 UTC]

oh ur R very welcome!! And U got their looks perfect!! Tis the best version i have seen of then thus far!!

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