What Makes A Fantasy Book Good To You?

What makes a fantasy book good to you?

Yep. I'm trying to get myself into writing a book again. Hopefully I'll actually pull through and write something fuller this time, even if I don't make it to the end.

But I've been thinking. I like to write, and I've always considered myself a good writer-- until lately, when I've actually started to notice some of my flaws. (I'll probably get into that another time, if I continue to make writing posts). And I want to improve-- so I'm asking for advice, to anyone who is a fan of fantasy books, a writer of books, or even a reader of any genre.

What makes a fantasy book enjoyable? What is something you want to see in the genre? What ruins a book? And what makes you want to pick the book up in the first place?

Sorry, that's a few extra questions than what I started with-- feel free to answer one, two, all, skip over and do none, or just comment some general advice :) I'll be happy with any kind of help or support

Paleoart Sketching at the Royal Tyrell Museum

I promise I’ll get better photos eventually, but here’s a quick dump from my trip to drumheller! Visited the museum for some amount of hours over two days so I could sketch the mounts, all of these are done on watercolour paper so hopefully when I next post about them, they’ll be painted up and pretty :)

What museum do you guys recommend to go to next? (At least, in North America)

Hopefully going back for visit number 6 next year! (I’m so greedy, I need to go back again and again)

Young Gorgosaurus libratus, death pose.

more under cut

Dromaeosaurus albertensis I believe, I gave it some strange butt plumage there but oh well

Black beauty (Tyrannosaurus rex) had a nice little chat with a photographer while drawing this one, we were both struggling to perform our arts with the massive crowd ;-; luckily day two was a lot less busy, I went first thing in the morning rather then midday.

Ornithomimus brevitertius, as to which the species Google refused to elaborate whether it’s synonymous with a different dinosaur species or genus so to this day I am unsure if it is a valid radon :,D regardless, this was probably my favourite sketch, working on painting it rn

I don’t remember the tag on this one, gonna guess it was a type of corythosaurus?

I’ll do some extra photo dumping from the museum later :)

[introduction]

hello, and welcome to my blog!

I am firestorm_shiba, you can also call me Fig (not my real name, but it’s time I grab myself a cool internet nickname…) or G :)

decided I should make a little(ish) introduction post, so here we go!

[quick summary of my blog]

I post a lot of dinosaurs + paleoart, but in the future I hope to include some more of my hobbies, interests and just little life things along the way! That may include lots of fantasy stuff, such as D&D, character design, and plenty of dragons, and I’ll likely start posting some of my fandom-related art stuff such as fanart of the Legend of Zelda, HotD/GoT, Wings of Fire, and the Witcher.

Maybe some little craft posts, and little random gremlin-y things

page tagging quick search:

my post = posts by me. Not much else to say. If I make a long bit of writing or add some art to a reblog, it may end up with this tag as well.

my art = again, not much else to say. Use this tag to quickly filter out reblogs and my non-art related posts from my blog :)

Cretaceous Alberta = art pieces, info and announcements regarding my Colours of the Lost World: Reconstructing Cretaceous Alberta project.

here's a bit about me + my page

Name: firestorm_shiba, Fig, or G, whatever you like

I am a Canadian artist, currently in high school but planning to pursue a degree in paleontology!

some of my interests are: Paleontology, fantasy, dragons & fictional creatures, bugs & insects, nature and all her random crunchy stuff, art, science, books, legend of zelda, and so on.

some of my hobbies: drawing of course, video games, dancing, insect pinning, writing & reading

have a question, art request or anything of the sort? Let me know in my comments, my asks, or shoot me a message! I love to hear from you guys :)

I also have a ko-fi shop (I'm currently unable to receive payments through there so if you would like to buy a sticker or product, please let me know and I can work out PayPal instead. You can still buy stuff off my ko-fi and I will still send it to you, but I won't be able to receive the payments from there for a bit (stripe and TD.... please just work with me I want the money I worked hard for ;-;)

Links and more under cut!

firestorm_shiba's art | Link Card

firestorm_shiba's art | Link Card

A short card containing links to access the social accounts, contacts and information regarding firestorm_shiba (G.R.C.) and their art.

More fun stuff coming soon, hopefully!

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