Tag: Cassiel’s Servant

Project Status: CASSIEL’S SERVANT Art To-Do List

I wanted to check-in as I’ve been silent for a little while thanks to a busy, busy month. I’ve been off toiling away on the Exalted Art Challenge, launching my 2025 Birthstone Goddesses Calendars, and finishing up my readthrough of CASSIEL’S SERVANT so I can finally approach the much-anticipated task of creating my own cover for it!

Art To-Do List

The ultimate goal for my Patreon’s focus right now is to draw cool art for books I love, while also making cool stuff for my Illustration portfolio. With that in mind, here’s what I’m hoping to achieve for CASSIEL’S SERVANT:

  • A Variant Wraparound Book Cover – (Planning)

  • Two Full Page Interior Illustrations – (Planning)

  • An Enamel Pin – (Sketched)

  • Sticker Designs Using the ‘rejected’ pin designs – (Sketched)

I absolutely adore the illustration work I’ve seen for special editions of books like Tran Nguyen’s work on the Subterranean Press editions of Phedre’s trilogy, which included a custom wraparound cover and interior illustrations in a gorgeous tome signed by the author.

Tran’s cover of KUSHIEL’S AVATAR from Subterranean Press.

The interior illustrations of KUSHIEL’S DART from Subterranean Press by Tran Nguyen

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These kinds of illustrated editions always get me so excited and inspired! I had to try doing this for myself and figured I’d take you all along for the ride. I’m nowhere near as amazing as Tran, but I hope I can bring something unique and full of passion for the story to my own renditions of art for CASSIEL’S SERVANT.

My Final Thoughts on CASSIEL’S SERVANT

I went in expecting a re-tread of KUSHIEL’S DART, which is one of the much-beloved Fantasy classics I hold sacred as a formative inspiration. I wasn’t sure we could learn much from a retelling of DART, but I am so happy to be proven wrong! Joscelin’s meditation on his religious upbringing, his tactical POV, and unique perspective made for an intriguing journey and fresh perspective.

For my full final thoughts on CASSIEL’S SERVANT, as well as a chapter by chapter discussion of my journey through the book, check out the Book Club thread on my Discord server here!

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Now, it’s time for me to get busy planning and sketching! In the meanwhile, I’d love to hear what illustrated editions you like best? NAME OF THE WIND also has a gorgeous edition by artist, Dan Dos Santos, if you haven’t seen it!

Free Members Preview – “Cassiel’s Servant” Art Collection

EDIT: I’ve decided to make things simpler by updating this entry with the new public art at the top of the post and add links to all the posts, public and patrons-only, pertaining to my art journey with “Cassiel’s Servant” by Jacqueline Carey. Now, you won’t have to dig for all the entries and art. Enjoy!

I wanted to give my Free Members a peek at all the art I’ve been creating inspired by “Cassiel’s Servant” from Jacqueline Carey. This story of a warrior monk’s unknowing rise to meet his divine destiny has just as much resonance as Phedre’s origin in “Kushiel’s Dart” and I’ve been enjoying it immensely!

Along the way, I’ve been creating art inspired by the mythology and fantastic worldbuilding of the world of Terre d’Ange, the “Land of Angels”. I’m planning for all this exploration to culminate in my own fan version of the book’s cover in the style of this one I created for “Kushiel’s Dart” and perhaps other book-inspired pins, stickers, etc. I hope to make a physical reality (more in that in a future post once plans and designs are more finalized).

(My fan version of the cover of “Kushiel’s Dart”, the book that started the Kushiel’s Legacy series which “Cassiel’s Servant” is a part of.)

I’m happy to share all of this art for free, but if you’d like to help support me while I work on this project, check out the following Patrons-only posts available to all paid members at all tiers for the deep dive into my process, inspiration, and research that my free posts don’t go into.

List of Posts So Far

You can also watch the experimental video I made combining art and narration about Elua here, since Patreon doesn’t support video embedding within the body of posts yet.

I plan to keep sharing art for free with optional paid perks this way so you can all get the best of both worlds!

Want to join me as I book club “Cassiel’s Servant”? Hop in the book’s discussion thread on my Discord server! This server is open to the public and free to join, though my Discord also has a Patrons-only area where you can Ask Me Anything, browse my private sketchbook, and more. Come hang out!

Have you finished reading “Cassiel’s Servant” yet? Are you planning to read? Or reading something else? Let me know what you’re up to, book wyrms!

– Ang