Cosmere ABCs
This page contains photos of my fan art of the Cosmere stories by Brandon Sanderson. The album is a series of vignettes featuring characters, creatures, and scenes from most of the published Cosmere novels, novellas, and short stories. Brandon's official introduction to the Cosmere is here, including a recommended reading order.
Spoiler warning: there are (mostly mild) spoilers for all published Cosmere books, novellas, and short stories.
You can view the files either through the gallery below or the individual image links just below the gallery. Below that, I have included a discussion of the build and some of the customization involved, followed by copyright and use information. If you're on mobile, the menus are at the bottom of the page.
Gallery
Individual image links
- Cover -- Cosmere ABCs
- A is for Aon -- Aon Rao from Elantris
- B is for Bloodsealer -- Bloodsealer and skeletals from The Emperor’s Soul
- C is for Color -- Vivenna using awakening in Warbreaker
- D is for Dakhor -- Dakhor monks from Elantris
- E is for Edgedancer -- Lift, Wyndle, Hauka, a chull, and Nale in Edgedancer
- F is for Forgery -- Shai teaching Gaotona about forgery in The Emperor’s Soul
- G is for Greatshell -- Shallan riding a chasmfiend, based on Words of Radiance
- H is for Hoid
- I is for Inquisitor -- Steel inquisitors and an obligator from Mistborn
- J is for Jakass -- Allomancer Jak from The Bands of Mourning
- K is for Koloss -- Koloss and Handerwym from The Pits of Eltania
- L is for Lifeless -- Lifeless from Warbreaker
- M is for Mastrell -- Sand masters from White Sand
- N is for Nightblood -- Nightblood from Warbreaker
- O is for Opelon -- The continent of Opelon from Elantris
- P is for Patji -- Dusk, Vathi, Kokerlii, and Sak from Sixth of the Dusk
- Q is for Quellion -- Beldre, Spook, and Quellion from The Hero of Ages
- R is for Returned -- Blushweaver, Lightsong, and Llarimar from Warbreaker
- S is for Shade -- Silence, William Ann, Chesterton, and Red from Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
- T is for Taldain -- Kenton and a sandling in White Sand
- U is for Urithiru -- Urithiru from Oathbringer
- V is for Voidbringers -- Parshendi and Wyndle from Words of Radiance
- W is for Windrunners -- Kaladin and windspren in Words of Radiance
- X is for Xaka -- Susebron and Siri in Warbreaker
- Y is for Yomen -- Yomen and the Lord Ruler from The Hero of Ages
- Z is for Zinc -- Breeze, Allrianne, Spook, Vin, and TenSoon from The Well of Ascension
About this build
There are lots of custom printed elements in this collection. I used waterslide decals for the Elantrians, Skeletals, Bloodsealer, Nalan's torso, the soulstamp, Hoid's torso, Handerwym, Koloss, Lifeless, Spook, one of the Parshendi torsos, Susebron's writing tablet, and Yomen's face. For anything requiring a bit more fidelity, I had a custom printer print directly onto the lego elements with digital UV printing; these included the Dakhor, Shai's various expressions, Nalan's head, Jak's head, the blue dress torso in the "J" panel, and Kaladin (shash brand, Bridge 4 patch, and Kholin uniform).
There are a few custom-made parts. The Steel Inquisitor heads were made by drilling through the eyes of some already-tattooed ninjago heads and then fitting small nails into the holes. An easy way to do this yourself is to buy a jewelry hand drill from a craft store. Vin's mistcloak is a standard dark grey lego cloak cut into thin strips. There are also many third-party off-the-shelf parts. The net and trap used by the survivalist Shai were made by BrickWarriors. The weapons used by the far left Dakhor monk are hunga mungas from BrickWarriors. Lift's legs were made by Brick Fortress (official lego "short legs" are not articulated). The berets and shawl in the "L" panel are from BrickForge and AreaLight, respectively; and the Mastrell's sashes are also from AreaLight. Hrathen's shoulder pauldrons are from BrickForge. Allrianne's metal vial is from BrickForge.
The Returned bear special mention -- for these, I used minidolls from the lego sets that are typically marketed towards girls (Elves, Friends, Disney Princesses, and Super Hero Girls). They are perfect because they are about a head taller than minifigures and they look more aesthetically pleasing. To make an all black outfit for Susebron, I used grey brush-on primer followed by several coats of black paint that is typically used for painting D&D miniatures.
To make the special effects (the Aon, the Wandersail, Syl, and the Windspren) I used GIMP, which is a free image processing program similar to Photoshop.
Legal stuff
The artwork on this page is copyright 2017 by Richard Martin. The source material is copyright by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC (Brandon Sanderson's company).
Feel free to download the images in this gallery and to use them for non-commercial purposes. If you wish to re-post them online, you may do so as long as you give me credit by either citing me (Rick Martin) as the artist, linking to this site, and/or linking to my Facebook page.
I am not affiliated with Brandon Sanderson or Dragonsteel Entertainment in any way. This page is in compliance with Brandon Sanderson's official policy on fan art.