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Graendal, born Kamarile Maradim Nindar.one of the thirteen Forsaken or Chosen if you prefer
Art by Ariel Burgess
I will be posting cards of my choice to post for teasers.
These are three from the Wheel of Time card deck that I am making.
The watermark is just in case I end up using this in an official deck.
let me know what you all think.
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...why is she refusing that drink? Seems a bit out of character if you ask me.
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She could have just had something, or be in a meeting. I was focusing more on her dismissive nature towards her play things. That she does not see them as people.
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Love the dress! I'm surprised you were able to capture the barely opaque essence of it, but you've done it quite well.
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Thank you!
Yep, I wanted no nudity to show but I wanted to keep it translucent. Really happy you (and others) think it works
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It does. Graendal's one of my favorite characters, and you really did her justice.
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My only crit is that her upper arms are really chubby though the rest of her isn't. She looks a bit like Mai from Yu-Gi-Oh to me
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I will be changing that in a set of revisions, although her hips won't be too much wider because that can't be seen from this angle.
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I'm actually really glad you made her really blond. I don't know why people keep thinking she and Elayne have the same hair color. They don't. Graendal is a golden blond where Elayne is a strawberry blond in essence, red-gold curls and all.
Her expression is perfect!
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thanks. I have a thing about that too. Being a redhead I am very specific with hair colors like gold blond, red-blond.
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Great Job
p.s. from my point of view i find her looking like a bitchy cougar holding a ciggarette which is hilarious yet still fitting in with her image and character
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Thank you.
Cool, I could see that. It would be interesting to see all of the Forsaken like 20's gangsters. That would be interesting indeed
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i have started doing some photoshop stuff. sitll looks like a 1st grader did it but im getting better.
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well practice makes you better, as you know. Good luck
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I...I fell in love with this.
The hair is wonderful, but what really captured me was the almost transparent dress. For me that was always a part of Graendal, and...yeah. Word failed.
It's awesome.
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Thank you
I wanted to make sure that she had the translucent dress, bitchy attitude, servants and gaudy jewelry.
I'm glad it worked out
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I think I imagine her face little different - more heart-shaped, rounder cheeks and such. I've always thought that she's a bit more... curvy... And being just little "bigger", absolutely not fat, just wider waist and bigger boobs than many. Not thin as supermodels, but like with women with average weight. And she actually does have big boobs here, but still I would have imagined with rounder face. Or something. Audjdsgljndskjhnsdlgsh, I can't explain
But I still like her a lot - I think that too often Graendal and Elayne appear so similar in fanart, because they have the same hair and eye colour (and maybe that's also why I think Elayne is the one size S and Graendal size M), but you captured such evil and cunning expression without making her look totally maniac. I don't see anything Elayne-like in her. She having so much jewellery and of course the glass of wine really makes her recognizable (she's THE hedonist). And like others before me, I adore that hair! Like always, this is so gooood that I seriously think I'm gonna have to purchase that card deck!
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I agree with you on her curves. Only snag is that curves like that don't show as well when sitting. Also I wanted to keep it PG-13 and not show her breast in a see through dress. so I squished them. I like the face but it could be rounder.
I agree about Graendal and Elayne, the problem with most art depicting Graendal is that often her personality is forgotten in all of the glamor and beauty and curved. To me the most important thing in these portraits is to show the personality. What you can't see is that she is sitting on a shirtless man. 
I really love drawing hair, I think it shows.
Great, I hope that you enjoy it
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Her hair are perfect!!! She's very beautiful but also mature and deadly
But there is one thing I don't like... Her jewelry. It's too heavy and too bright. I always pictured her with many jewels but they only hightened her charm, but here they're too heavy and are over-shadowing her face and hands. It's a shame
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Thank you.
As for the jewelry I thought Graendal qould wear something gaudy.
So that is what I went with. I can see about changes later.
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Nah, it's ok with Graendal, but for such a small picture is a little too much
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probably her own paralis net so she won't go anywhere without it... hmmm did the books ever mention her having one?
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Paralis...what? Sorry, I'm not English, so I don't know what you're talking about xD
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the Jewelry ter-angreal sets, like the one Cadsuane has and the one Nyneave has.
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I didn't read last book, so I don't know if she had one or not, but I was only commenting the picture alone - like, you know if it was than it was too much of a color and size
But it's an interesting idea...
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yeah I get what you're saying, it looks like too much on her. the earrings could be smaller and a ring on every finger is a tad gaudy
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Love this piece - a perfect Graendal! I was never happy with the picture I had of her in my own mind, I only ever was able to envisage her as being somewhat too 'soft', not an image that worked with one of the Forsaken. Here Graendal's beauty doesn't hide the manipulative, greedy, narcisistic, power hungry woman that swore her soul to the shadow. Everything about this piece screams deadly predator - a perfect Graendal. Once again thank you! I hope more than ever your work gets turned into a proper deck of cards. I'm re-reading the full series at the moment in preparation for the final installment, and when i come across one of the characters you've drawn/painted it is your piece that I now have in mind, which essentially adds a new level of reality to a series I've been reading and re-reading since the mid 90's. So yes thank you is definitely in order here!!!
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Thank you
I'm really glad that she turned out what you expected.
To me the personality makes the painting so that was more important than any other minor detail. I am always happy when people see that.
I have been considering re-reading the series myself.
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