Sci-fi and Fantasy Comics by Jemma Young Studios: Other Projects

Words: A Way of Kings Fancomic

Jemma M Young — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:08:56 GMT

Gosh. Reading Way of Kings was life changing for me back in 2015. I LOVED that book so much and I ended up drawing my favorite scene from it. This was drawn traditionally on toned paper with the lettering added afterwards. It was cool cause I actually gave the original artwork to Brandon Sanderson himself. (He said he liked it, but he probably says that to everyone who gives him fanart XD)

Anyways, here it is. Enjoy!

Not pictured: Kaladin landing and kicking butt.

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Stormlight Archive Gallery

Jemma M Young — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:56:19 GMT

Since about 2015, I’ve loved Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive. Over the years I’ve found myself drawing and painting the various characters throughout the story. It’s been interesting, seeing my artwork pop up all over the Stormlight and Cosmere community boards and some have even been stolen and sold on sites like Displate. I guess such things happen. (I’ve since uploaded some of my artwork on Displate legitimately if people want such things, lol.)

Anyways, here’s a collection of most of them. At least, the ones I could find. I’m sure there’s more lost in various sketchbooks and folders on my computer.

Unite Them - Digital

Windrunner - Digital

Heavenly One - Digital

Radiant - Digital

Sylphrena - Digital

Venli - Digital

Renarin - Digital

Champion of Nine Shadows (The painting Kaladin finds in Shadesmar) - Digital

Magical Boy Kaladin (Stormlight Archive is secretly a Magical Girl story and you can’t convince me otherwise). - Digital

Kaladin Falls - End of Rhythm of War - Digital Sketch

Elsecaller - Jasnah Kholin and Ivory - Digital

Hidden Pattern - Watercolor

Voidbringer - Watercolor

Shallan and the Cryptics - Traditional marker, pencil, and acrylic paint on toned paper

Sky Duel - Digital

Kaladin - traditional markers.

Lopen - Traditional marker, pencil, and acrylic paint on toned paper.

Rock - Traditional markers, pencils, and acrylic paint on toned paper.

Aaaaand then there’s this weird little comic I drew….

Bridging Chasms

Jemma M Young — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:52:20 GMT

From the moment I picked up the Stormlight Archive, it has always held a special place in my heart. As a person who has struggled with chronic depression for most of my life, Kaladin has always spoken to me as a character. Some of his struggle is my struggle and so we take the journey together.

In 2019 I had a crazy idea: I was going to draw a comic of Kaladin and Shallan trapped in the chasms. For those of you who have read the book, you know this section of Words of Radiance is chapters long and drawing it all out would be a massive undertaking. So I decided to take a more artistic approach rather than showing everything that was written in the book in extreme exactness.

As such, I removed most of the dialogue and focused more on telling the story through visuals. I wanted the focus to be on the emotional weight and journey of these two characters and see if I could do that with as little dialogue as possible. This was the result, a 17 page comic with few words, and fewer panel borders. This is something I’m quite proud of and I hope that you enjoy this little homage to the most epic of fantasy novels of the decade.

Thanks for enjoying this little comic project! If you want to keep a copy of this comic for yourself you can download the PDF of it here.