Marewill Flower Musings: Drawing a Fake Plant
When I worked on my Mistborn belt, I included a Marewill flower. I’m also working on some coasters for leather carving practice and have included some floral elements too.
This flower is significant because a character early on in the series has a picture of a blue-white, bell-shaped flower from a previous age. It is a nice little detail in the books, calling back to greener times when the world wasn’t covered in ash. These flowers are woven into the story later as well and become symbolic - kind of like the promise of rebirth and hope.
Anyway, there isn’t any official art for a Marewill flower that I know of at least. And I couldn’t find much online, so I went with the handful of descriptions from the book and let my imagination roam.
I was inspired by several plants - A spent and wilting hibiscus flower was a starting point for the drooping petals effect. Also, silvery sage Lamb’s ear served as the coloration and texture for the leaves in my mind. But I went with a more oak leaf type shape rather than smooth edges. Finally, I was inspired by the deep blue of Morning Glories - and how they spiral open and close with the daylight cycle.
Armed with all that, I hope you enjoy my interpretation of a Marewill flower from Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I’d plant these in my garden for sure. Marewill flowers are probably part shade perennials, but I imagine that they would die back to the ground in the winter, I think. I like that idea of them being cyclical, hardy but fragile at the same time.
Closest thing I could find at my garden center were these Purple Balloon flowers, so I snatched them up for my flower garden.
