Hello all!
Last year, I finally finished WoT after 20+ years of not really reading books at all. I stopped reading after Crossroads of Twilight when it was first released (life and all), but I rediscovered the books thanks to the TV show and Rosamund Pike's audiobook versions. I finished up with Kramer and Reading and finally got the end of the story! Audiobooks were ideal for me, since I've been recovering from knee surgeries and could listen while doing physio exercises. I've got more surgeries ahead of me and still can't walk properly, so Wheel of Time has become my comfy obsession and distraction.
After finishing the books, I decided to try my hand at painting character portraits based on the details given in the texts. Jordan's descriptions are so rich and clear in some passages, and I didn't often see a lot of fan art depicting outfits Jordan described. Where characters have an iconic look (ie Mat and his hat, or Galad in a whitecloak uniform), I'll do them in those. I do the basic portrait, and then later turn it into a graphic with variations if needed (ie, I wanted to give Morgase a Queen Elizabeth frill despite it not being in the books, but couldn't work in the Andorran stole with it, so she has an alt version with no frill where she wears her stole.)
So, I started a long term project/distraction to plug away at this year. But! I'm probably going to need help locating descriptions in the books where I can't remember them, or if I forget details.
My next subject is Gawyn, and I'm planning to paint him in the outfit he's described as wearing in TDR, Chapter 16, Hunters Three, which is basically a dark green coat and white shirt, so nothing too complicated, but I was wondering if there are any other passages describing his clothing. I know in EotW, he's written as wearing red, white, and gold clothing, a coat and cloak that are brocaded and embroidered, but I've already done Rand and Morgase in red and don't want more red lol.
If anyone has any suggestions of where I can look in the text for descriptions of what Gawyn wears, I'd be eternally grateful!
You can see the images I've already done on my tumblr, and read my rambling there about my artistic choices for each. I've just finished Elayne in her EoTW outfit and have already done Galad, Rand, Berelain, Morgase, Bela, and Thom.
Thank you all!