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Published: 2017-03-08 21:21:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1303; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 2
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In honour of this women's day I decided to finish my seriously neglected portrait of Steris, my newest female character crush.She is the most unique woman I have ever read about in a book that I associated myself so with, and she felt even more special written by a male author. (Brandon Sanderson is a God, so that's not what I mean, but I do think that I often hear that great women can only be written by female authors and I think we should break that stigma! We're all humans after all)
She is a high society woman, who is socially unintelligent, but very smart and organized, which I find is a very rare combination in a fictional women. I just downright fell in love with her wit and realistic image of self impotance. We need more unique women in fiction, and I encourage men and women alike to write realistic and original female characters. 😊
We need to be proud of ourselves, especially if we do not fit the shape or size or state of mind that society tells us to, and we need to support each other in our uniqeness! 😘
Love, Iggy
Steris (C) Brandon Sanderson
Art (C) me - IngvildSchageArt - you find me on Instagram, Tumblr and favebokn, so please don't repost anywhere!
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This is exactly what she looks like in my head. Amazing!
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Awesome! Im glad to hear it 
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I have now! Great job. And I'm thrilled to see another Silmarillion fan who also loves Mistborn!
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Thank you very much!! ^^ I am glad you like her, and yes I LOVE both silmarillion and Mistborn, the two of them constantly fight for my creative attention
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I love his book Warbreaker, Siri and Susebron is rather funny together XD
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OK so this is a puzzle to me: I first took her expression as one of pride and self-assurance, but while reading that your description of her, about her absence of social intelligence, I'm not longer sure of my interpretation. And did you mean you like her realistic image of "self-importance" or "self-impotence"?
Whatever, I love that drawing and your supporting the creation of interesting women characters ^^
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That is actually remarkable and EXACTLY what I intended of her expression. As a high society woman she has the decorum of a stuck up woman, but her insecurities shine through it, and is in itself interpreted as being stuck up. This is something I have experience many times myself, as I am shy and I do not intend to but people tend to take that as a stuck up attitude because I do not talk a lot. I'm soo happy this reflected in my drawing, which is why I love this drawing so much! ^^ I love her realistic image of self-importance, because theres a scene in the book where she actually rates her own efficiency in their mission, and she is just so fantastically ignorant of how strange that is. She is soooo complex... Please read the mistborn novels!!
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