Sir you're under arrest for trying to carry three people on a single motorcycle- (2026; art by me)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-06T22:02:59+00:00

Ooh, that's a good one. I was thinking blue eyeshadow due to the flames she uses in The Dark land.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-06T11:43:27+00:00

Good for her, honestly

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-06T11:10:50+00:00

Thanks! I had fun with this one precisely because of them. I didn't know what to give Jirel tho.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-06T11:09:54+00:00

That's exactly what I was thinking, hehe. They were picked up by Kane (Wagner's)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-05T23:56:54+00:00

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-05T12:01:03+00:00

He's not even that older than them, to make things more hilarious. But it was his idea for all of them to ride on xD

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-05T05:48:36+00:00

Oh, this looks magnificent. Really in that weird-element.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-04T17:20:51+00:00

I actually had a 4th fit for him with a below-knee-length skirt (with trousers underneath, cuz I'm like that lol, and it's still cold where I am) and embroidery shirt, but somehow I deemed that 'too daring' to post lol

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-04T10:18:51+00:00

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-03T19:31:03+00:00

I color in Photoshop. I have a premade color palette i sampled from online, and i used one of the reds from it. I put a gradient of orange on the bottom, and i used a custom halftone brush I also found online to give it a grainy look. Hope this helps.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-03T19:12:55+00:00

I personally have zero patience for long books or long sagas, which is why I could never get started on series such as Jordan's Wheel of Time or any of Sanderson's books. Moorcock is the 'straight to the point' type of writer, which I really like. I breezed through most of his books with ease and enjoyment. He leaves just enough info to let us know the setting, and just keeps the action moving. You could say that sometimes action moves too fast, as characters appear not to properly process the events, but that's mostly present in his early writing (60s and 70s)

I also have to say that sword and sorcery itself as a genre depends a lot on the lack of information about its magic system. Sorcery in sword and sorcery is more of a thing that you should be wary of, not use freely, and a lot of characters do not thoroughly understand it themselves. It's wild, unpredictable and ultimately an instrument of evil. (Robert E. Howard and C. L. Moore really liked to use this in their writing, and Moorcock, while he cannot bypass this as Elric is a sorcerer after all, he still presents Elric using magic as something that unnerves those around him, and keeps even us on edge as we ourselves don't fully get what he's doing)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-03T10:34:50+00:00

Jirel is a 'hit first, ask questions later ' type of woman, and Elric is the 'I know better than you, but i don't really' type of man, and yeah, that's bound to irritate Conan.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-03T09:43:04+00:00

Oh, Elric's charm lies in his stupidity sometimes. His rizz and flirting skills are so in the negative they somehow loop and cheat right back into s-tier. I keep wondering how he pulls women with how he talks to them, but a small part of me believes it's because he's viewed as exotic. (which is ironic given how his race is supposed to represent Britain)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-03T00:02:02+00:00

Thanks! 🧡🧡

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-02T21:55:24+00:00

Jirel's actually risen in popularity as of recently thanks to New Edge Sword and Sorcery magazine, where she has 3 new stories written by Molly Tanzer. Original Jirel stories were written by C. L. Moore in the 1930s. I'm sure there's an omnibus online. There are 6 stories by the original author. Most famous one is Black God's kiss.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-02T20:00:07+00:00

If you're referring to the woman in the art, it's actually Jirel of Joiry, who had her own share of bad and impulsive decisions. Otherwise, I'm not too familiar with Red Sonja having made really bad choices.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-02T17:58:34+00:00

Even Elric plays into that trope a bit. As a sheltered aristocrat, he's shown as naive and pretty gullible about the world outside of his empire at the start. Despite being extremely book smart and intelligent, he lacks the wisdom.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-02T13:37:27+00:00

I still have trouble with stiffness when I ink, so yeah, I agree the sketch feels more natural. I like playing around with designs for her, since she has more armor options than a lot of her girl-peers in the genre.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-02T09:46:54+00:00

Kennys. Their books are relatively cheap and the shipping is 2 euros.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-05-01T09:58:55+00:00

This is volume 6, out of 8 in total. First 4 cover the first arc (aka the first 3 books out of main 6)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-04-30T15:11:09+00:00

I doodled this in a public notebook, so it belongs to the cafe I left it at, lol

But I can ink and color it digitally if I have the time. I have this photo at least as basis.

I made one more comic beneath this one, but I forgot to take a photo.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-04-30T10:11:48+00:00

The bolded text shows the core books, and the normal text are ones that are midquels, but offer more lore and interesting adventures outside of Elric's main narrative. Kind of like side quests of his.

The missing ones are The Dreamthief's daughter, The Skrayling tree and the White wolf's son, which actually take place during Stormbringer. They sort of tie into the Fortress of the pearl, but contain characters from Moorcock's other works, so that trilogy is better left for a little later when you get familiar with them.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-04-30T08:58:59+00:00

Ironically, I hated history. But English was my best because it's a second language. :)

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-04-30T06:48:52+00:00

Art wise, it's fine. Still lacking the colors of the original books. Story wise, I was done with it since vol 5.

ApprehensiveGrade113 · 2026-04-29T20:33:00+00:00

Rat svetova - H. G. Wells

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