POV you're Nikaro

I made Yumi in a kind of anime style (hope it looks like 😅) and experiment with certain scene on the book and the world palette color .

What do you think about?

"My coat rack killed God and now it's everyone's problem."

PoV: You just finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

I think it’s funny when people roll their eyes about all the time Sanderson spends on clothes and fashion, as if it’s not an integral part of the world building and character development. I did my undergrad thesis on fashion semiotics in Mistborn (primarily using Roland Barthes) and there’s a direct correlation between how Vin is dressing and where she’s at on the hero’s journey, but in a way that doesn’t feel obvious at first. So it’s interesting to read Yumi and see how Sanderson is utilizing the language of fashion to explore these worlds and characters. The changing room scene with Akane is more than just a cute romcom scene, it’s about the process of discovery. Which is obvious but I can’t help harkening back to Barthes, who co-opts De Saussure’s thoughts on language for the use of fashion.

De Saussure identifies two aspects of language and communication: langue and parole. Langue is the rules of a particular language (subject verb order, for example) and parole is how an individual uses those rules to express themselves. Barthes applies this idea to fashion. We’re given these arbitrary rules of fashion (even as simple as “one must be dressed in public”) and from there we learn to work within the parameters of those rules to outwardly express ourselves. There’s a difference between your favorite pair of jeans and the pair of slacks you wear to work; there’s a difference between the dress you wear to a job interview and the dress you wear on a date where you’re trying to fuck.

The changing room scene is Yumi shotgunning the concepts of langue and parole all at once. She is learning new rules (you can have your shoulders bare) while learning how to express herself within the parameters of those rules (you can wear a dress with bare shoulders and still cover your shoulders with another garment). It’s cute and sweet but also important. She’s learning not just how to express herself but also that she’s allowed to. There’s nothing frivolous about how Sanderson uses and describes fashion. It’s a direct outgrowth of the journeys he sends his characters on.

Art is about intent.

My daughter!! I lover her!! Third in this art noveau experiment.

Someone found the cover for Tor edition of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter and I cannot live without this.

I promise it's pink and turquoise. The colors are a little weird. Night time phone pictures...

I wanted to focus on the bamboo in the hion lights but then I got distracted by nightmare smoke footprint lol

I’m on vacation. No worshipping the bits of God when they’re on vacation. It’s a rule I just made up.

Another Sanderson Cosplay, yay!

With @druidbunny as Hoid!

Pictures were taken by Kronephotographie on Instagram 💕

Character is Design from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

nikaro, after dedicating his whole life to it, realizing he never even stood a chance at joining the dreamwatch 🤝 spensa, after dedicating her whole life to it, realizing that she never even stood a chance at entering the ddf

Limber, tall, with four arms, the explorers described them as having chalk-white skin.

*bangs fists* Show me the aliens, Sanderson! I want to see the four armed aliens!!

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Spoilers ⚠️⚠️

it’s hard to emulate with pencil but i imagined their ghost forms with the warrior cats starclan white lines with sparkles on them

Yumi and Painter icons

I forgot to post both time ago

I tried to draw my version of the nightmare described in chapter three of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter! This is also kind of for cosmere inktober 2023, I wanted to try one of the days, and day 14's 'nightmare' seemed appropriate for the spooky season as well ^ ^

Ok I finished yumi now what do I do with my life?

So I was reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and came across this line (minor spoilers I guess???):

“Leaves and florets-similar to the white sprigs that dandelions release on Scadrial”

And I’m floored I didn’t know there were Dandelions on Scadrial. When did that happen????

Do I need to re-read Mistborn??? They for sure weren’t in the original trilogy to my knowledge. No way for them to survive in the ash. But like when???? Did Harmony create them???? I’m just reeling over that fact. What else did I miss???

BrandoSando, you can’t drop a line like that and move past it

Am I just dense and didn’t notice???

You get what you deserve uwu