This meme has been done to death and these two characters of mine don’t even interact in-universe, but just I HAD to draw it. T’was revealed to me in a dream.
you know those charts depicting the rapid growth of domestic chickens over the decades
well, after seeing the original publication of a shard of ice in fantastyka magazine (topic for another post because it really is just wonderfully illustrated by jarosław musiał)
i was thinking, after seeing these illustrations... when my heart jumped for joy at seeing art of books-geralt, taking no visual influence from adaptations-not-yet-made...
(i've censored yennefer's sorceress-presenting... for tumblr)
that the remarkably-accurate-to-his-prose-descriptions-shaped geralt looks nothing like his modern interpretations
and, well...
when lined up like this, it really is more drastic than you think. what ARE they doing to him. bring who and what geralt is supposed to be back. this is so unfair. for geralt and for the body standards these changes represent