GNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art

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@davidrevoy boaaaahhh awesome 
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@davidrevoy 100% here for this! Though I see she has not yet decided to "wear midnight". ;)

But the lighting is so good! Beautifully captured!

@rez @davidrevoy
I always wondered, if it is midnight blue or midnight black. Or both.

Any way my pick of colours. :-)

@davidrevoy oh my god it's happening, pepper and carrot universe is merging with the discworld.
@peha If only I could do that and still have the result legal in term of copyrights... (Rhianna, please, grant me a perpetual license, I promise you won't regret it 😺 )
@davidrevoy oh oh, just imagine that, my friend, it could be glorious.

@davidrevoy @peha

It will always be a regret that nothing from the Pratchett estate was put into Creative Commons SA. I always felt that it would have been a good fit in comparison to the closed nature of copyright inheritance.

@davidrevoy asking as an absolute layperson, how fast is speed-painting, how long did it take you to paint this?

@climbertobby Speedpainting duration is always relative to any artist. Here I call speedpaintings the one I do in only one sitting, this one took ~2h. (I usually paint more than 9h on my pieces)

I had a little time at 17h30, a pinch to the heart seeing other celebrating the death anniversary of Terry Pratchett, and wanted to participate with a little something.

With this time budget, I couldn't detail much anything, but captured what I had in mind during my reading experience.

@davidrevoy @climbertobby Celebrating the death anniversary sounds wrong somehow ...
@lazy @climbertobby Yes, both the act and the expression (probably a bit bad because of my FrenchEnglish skill). But we need an arbitrary date, and maybe seeing this online helps the family in this painful anniversary. Not really sure.
Micro SF/F by O. Westin (@[email protected])

The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment. IT IS TIME "Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right." COME "Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?" YES "Fondly?" I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE "No, but you spend some time with them after, like now." 1/2

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@davidrevoy

My new KDE background. 🤩

@wolfgang Thank you. You can use the 4K one from here if the 2560x1440 posted on social media is not big enough:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/0ther/misc/hi-res/2026-03-12_GNU-Terry-Pratchett_Tiffany-Aching-fan-art_by-David-Revoy.jpg

@davidrevoy

Wow! Thank you very much.

@davidrevoy Well *that's* a good idea. Done. @wolfgang
@davidrevoy awww, Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors! Do more from him, please!
@davidrevoy
Je suis justement en train de le lire à ma fille 🤩

@davidrevoy 11 years already, huh? Back then when I was 20 I read all of Discworld in under a year. And then Pterry died. What did I cry then! Now I am reading the books to my child, just now came back from reading Soul Music until he sleeps. And so things live one. First through us, now through our children. So now I am crying again. He wrote "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away". Pterry has not caused ripples, but giant waves. Let my tears make sure the waves never calm down.

Also been thinking this for a long while, but I think you'd be perfect for illustrating Tiffany Aching series. Like Paul Kidby is great and beloved, but Tiffany Aching expresses strength, and your drawing is really good at exrpressing strength. I am sure he would have loved your illustrations.

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@lazy Thank you for your words and for sharing this. 11 years ago I was feeling down in the dumps and we went with my wife in our favorite restaurant of the moment to rise a glass and cheers up us a bit.
@davidrevoy
Terry is living forever 🥹

@smoczek @davidrevoy

somehow I'm happy he doesn't have to see what the world (and some of his friends) have become

@davidrevoy Woahh this is gorgeous!
@davidrevoy @crossgolf_rebel I love the small glimpse on the Wee Free Men. Crivens! This is a really beautiful picture.

@davidrevoy

The horse being on a cliff is really interesting visual. Compared to the real life one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse

Uffington White Horse - Wikipedia

@doctormo Thank you for the link, I had no idea!

@davidrevoy

The way Pratchett poetically describes the horse as being the form what a horse in motion should be, really makes sense when you've seen the thing it's based on

I saw it in real life once on the train as we passed by.

@doctormo @davidrevoy I wouldn't call myself a spiritual person by any means, but I was reading A Hat Full Of Sky on a train and just after reading "It ain't what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be.” I looked up and saw the Uffington Horse out of the window. A very odd moment when it felt like something bigger in the universe was gently tapping me on the shoulder.
@davidrevoy

Wonderful. Interesting to see someone else's mind images of beloved characters. And flattering images of the bloody nuisances. More Sheep Liniment vicar?
@davidrevoy Wow that is beautiful, love the style and colours

@davidrevoy I like this picture.

GNU Sir Pterry

@davidrevoy C'est magnifique. Le vent dans les cheveux de Tiphaine, la lumière – la lumière ! – sur la roche et l'herbe…

(ça fait plusieurs fois que je vois passer ton image, et je viens seulement de repérer les Nac mac Feegle ^^' )

@lamecarlate Merci! Oui, j'avais besoin de couleur et de lumière. J'aurai bien aimé placé la roulotte et les chiens aussi, la mort au rat, horace le fromage... 😺
@davidrevoy Horace ! J'avais oublié son existence. Va falloir me prévoir une séance de relecture, là.
@davidrevoy Merci pour ce dessin !
On a fini l'arc complet avec mini-moi il y a quelques mois... je lui montre ce soir elle va adorer 🙂
... et tu m'as motivé à configurer mes machines pour relancer les clacks overhead 🤗
@Pyves   Merci!
Tiens, moi aussi je devrais bidouiller les headers de mes pages html pour cette petite ligne un de ces quatre.
@davidrevoy love the horse reference, took me a while to see it
@davidrevoy That's the weekend settled, time for a reread.
@davidrevoy David... these are sheep, not gnus...
 pretty!!! )
@davidrevoy Just to confirm, this has your usual copyright applied?
@hendric No, I can't. As for any fan-art, it's not my property and it's a fair-use. You can read more here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2026-03-12_GNU-Terry-Pratchett_Tiffany-Aching-fan-art_by-David-Revoy.html
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