
Nothing brings back childhood memories like the smell of cardamom… I love traditional Norwegian sweet buns! I only realized while scavenging for ingredients how Norwegian recipes always have that exciting little twist on everything. Like the use of cardamom and vanilla sugar in cakes and bakes. I’m so used to it that I never questioned it, but apparently it’s very bold and odd! It’s so exclusively Scandinavian that I had to buy cardamom pods, peel them to get the seeds and ground them myself! Geez! Baking is tough work in UK! Soon I’ll get some vanilla pods and make my own vanilla sugar as well. Damn straight!
The smell of cardamom
Monday, May 10th, 2010 by Kiyu[fan art] Clary and Jace
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by Kiyu
“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it’s 5 a.m., I figured you’d be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.”
“Meaning you?”
“What else?”
After laughing in amusement and gasping in anguish during the adventures of the Mortal Instruments books, I figured I owed the author some fan art for not disappointing. So here it is, a sketch of Clary and Jace, a pairing which brought much joy and pain to me as a reader. Joy because their relationship is so raw and dear, pain because — well, you’ll just have to read it. Clary is an artist who describes herself as ‘cute’, but swearing to jeans and sweaters didn’t exactly make her very feminine. I decided I’d let Isabelle fix her up again before I started drawing her (how can I possibly resist the temptation to make Clary all girly and pretty when she’s got wonderfully red and curly hair!) – note her embarrassed expression.
Jace is his usual sexy, confident and sarcastic self (but good-natured), though how I managed to make him look hot with those stupid, golden curls of his, is a mystery. I even put on the faint white lines of inactive, faded runes on his chest – can you tell? I put some active ones on both of them as well, and I dressed them up in shadowhunter gear! Or at least my version of it. Jace decided – much to our joy – that he didn’t need the black top underneath, the coat alone was sufficient, hurr hurr.
Lutten’s complaining about the design of the stele. Shaddap, that’s how I imagined it while reading! (And the seraph blades look even duller in my imagination when inactive, hehe)
I quite like this sketch, perhaps I should give it a go?
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