Oliver's dragon

Oliver, age 10, sent in this excellent dragon sketch.

Behold the fierceness of its eyes! The sharpness of its many teeth! The evident intelligence in its visage which marks it as a dangerous foe! Marvelous. Thank you, Oliver!

Readers, we love to see your art!

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TONIGHT, Andrew and company are livestreaming their annual Advent/Christmas concert, Behold the Lamb of God. Featuring many wonderful artists, including Andrew’s own kids, BTLOG presents “The true tall tale of the Coming of Christ,” and is hosted at the historic Ryman Theater (and around the U.S.). You can get your tickets here.

A glimpse into the writers' room

Happy Holidays! Gather together with Chris and the writing team on Wednesday as they share about the process of building the storylines for season one. You might even get a peek into a scene from one of the episodes! They will also reveal what the casting process is like to find just the right voice actors. We hope you can join us!

Catch the livestream on Facebook or YouTube! The show will be available for replay afterward, if you’re unable to make it live.

"I don't know my name"

Dear friends, a reader sent in a piece of fan art this week that stopped me in my tracks. This was drawn by Aaron Hamilton of Tulsa, who thanks his wife Lillian for her insight and support of his art as well. I, as librarian of this fine establishment, thank you both; I love this piece.

If you’ve read the end of book two, you will recognize the anguished howl in these words immediately.

Thank you so much for sending this in, Aaron. Keep, drawing, please.

Fight at the Carriage

Gabe, 13, sent in an amazing drawing of Peet battling the Fangs as the Fangs attempt to take the Igibys away in the Black Carriage. Isn’t his composition remarkable? I love the foregrounding and backgrounding, the movement, the Fang coming in from the side, the looks on everyone’s faces. The three characters in the corners, Gabe tells us, are the Igiby siblings and Gnorm.

Awesome work, Gabe! Thank you for sharing your art with us! I hope you’re working on a graphic novel of some sort. :-)

An original Wingfeather composition!

Last week a young pianist and composer premiered an award-winning original Wingfeather score at her piano recital! Says her mother,

My ten-year-old daughter, Lyla, is a huge fan of the Wingfeather Saga books. This summer, her piano teacher challenged her students to write an original composition. Lyla took up that challenge and wrote hers based on the fourth book in the series. In the piece the boys are running with the Stone, encountering the giant spider, and the trolls are fighting. She even taught herself how to use notation software to finish her piece. Anyways, she won the Young Composer’s Award tonight at her recital where she played her original piece. Thank you so much for inspiring her. She is already working on another piece based on the series—a much sadder piece, she tells me.

Lyla and her piano instructor

Lyra, your composition is marvelous, and your hard work and dedication blows me away. Please keep composing!

To view Lyla’s composition, click here.

LIVE with Andrew, Chris, Garrett, et al

Andrew, Chris, and Wingfeather art director Garrett Taylor are live on Facebook and YouTube right now, talking about taking the short film to the next level in creating environments for the upcoming animated series. :-) Other surprise guests are coming on later, and the whole conversation will be available for replay after the broadcast wraps up, so no worries if you miss the beginning!

Bring your Fangs, and join the ride!

Out of the Deeps of the Dragon King

Captain Whilly grabbed me feet just in time and pulled me back into the boat, still grasping the spear with all me strength. The fish continued to wriggle weakly on the tip of it. We all stared at the creature. This was no glipper fish.

If you’ve read “From the Deeps of the Dragon King” in Wingfeather Tales, you’ll know that there’s more to the story. This week’s winner, Rose Swillum, fills in some of those gaps with even more piracy, sea-creatures, and danger.

Continue reading Rose’s winning entry for the 9th-12th grade category at the Rabbit Room. Great work, Rose!

The runner-up was Illa Briar (parent: Lyndsay Greer) with The Marvelous Invention of Haric the Pungent. Thank you, Illa, and congratulations!

And thank you all for contributing such fantastical and brelinevant stories! What a great honor to read your work. (If you’d like to keep on creating in Aerwiar, check out yesterday’s post and follow along on social media.)

Pembrick’s Creaturepedia (with blank pages to document your own travels!) is available in our site store. May your adventures be grand, and your eyes filled with wonder!

THAGS activity #1: Choices

[Today’s post is a guest post by our friend Mallif of Bylome, who’s been busy working on a series of fun activities for you all. This is the beginning, but there’s lots more planned! Be sure you’re following @wingfeathersaga on Instagram and/or Facebook to participate!—Madame Sidler]

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Word. Form. Song: Activity #1

Choices: An Exploration of Earnestly Enigmatic Evaluations

If you were asked to join the Wingfeather Saga animated series illustration team, and given the task of drawing a Fang is a series of actions, where would you begin?

There are many choices that Andrew made when dreaming up the words to describe the overall form of a Fang... what choices would you make when taking those words and creating your own Fang in illustrated form?

We know from Aedan that when creating the first visual illustrated accounting from Ollister Pembrick's notes on Creatures from Skree that he used the wild & wonderful animalia that he sees around him, or knows about through other means like books, poems and other tales.

How do you know a Fang is a Fang when you see one?

Can you recall the elements of a Green Fang from On The Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness that make them what they are?

What does a Fang's:

• Eyes look like?

• Mouth?

• Nose?

• Feet?

• Hands?

• Teeth?

• Tail?

We've created a handy 3D form for you to begin with, but just use this as a starting point—feel free to make your Fang a Thang of your own creation!

You have unlimited choice! You make your Fang look the way you think they should look. Perhaps you'll find inspiration in a choice of armor or weapon! Perhaps your Fang will not be quite as scary to the children and people of Skree. How will you choose to show that, in visual form?

Download the FREE Fang Form file here and be sure to join us LIVE, this Thursday, October 21 on Facebook and YouTube for an update from Andrew Peterson, Chris Wall and the Wingfeather Saga animated series team!

Click the image to download the full template!