A shelf of illustrated series walks

Series Notes

made in 2 days — Oct 6–7, 2026

Whole series of books, walked. Every novel summarized in detail, movement by movement, and illustrated in a few hundred painted frames; every caption fact-checked against the text before a single frame is painted; and the films and shows set beside the books they came from.

Painted illustration of a long scroll unrolled across a lamplit reading table, made of side-by-side painted panels in different styles: a dark tower among red roses, a hill city with a golden palace and a waterfall, a lone walker crossing desert dunes, a barrel of brass coins in a temple, and five women in five colours in an Art Nouveau frame. A stack of old hardbacks sits at one end.

The walks

A gaunt fair-haired man in a grey room stands beside an open white capsule next to a doorway of pale blue light; beyond it, in a green valley, an elf in black armour with his face looks out.

Play to Live, Walked

made in a day — Oct 7, 2026

D. Rus · 9 novels, 2013–2021 · ~257 frames · painted like a 1980s adventure module · no screen adaptations

D. Rus's LitRPG saga set in AlterWorld, one of the founding titles of Eksmo's LitRPG series: a dying Moscow gamer goes perma in a virtual world as Laith, a high elf sworn to a fallen god, and climbs from clan leader to god. All nine novels summarized and walked in painted frames, every page adversarially fact-checked, with a world page where screen notes would go.

Step into AlterWorld →
Art Nouveau illustration: five young women in blue, white, red, green and black stand on a terrace above a river valley inside a border of waves, clouds, flames, oak leaves and wheat.

Elemental Blessings, Walked

made in a day — Oct 6, 2026

Sharon Shinn · 5 novels, 2010–2023 · ~180 frames · Art Nouveau · no screen adaptations

Five novels, one heroine to each of Welce’s five elements, walked in frames whose ornamental borders carry each scene’s element — in the colours the books themselves give them. With no film or series to compare, a world page takes the adaptations’ place, and a temple barrel lets you draw your own blessings on coins made for the site.

Draw a blessing →
Painted illustration in an epic book-cover style: a colossal dark stone tower rises alone from a field of red roses under a gold-and-slate sunset sky, and a single small figure in a long coat walks a dirt path through the roses toward it.

The Dark Tower, Walked

made in a day — Oct 6, 2026

Stephen King · 8 novels, 1982–2012 · ~340 frames · epic painted · the 2017 film

All eight Dark Tower novels, from the man in black fleeing across the desert to the field of roses and back again, plus a scene-by-scene walk of the 2017 film, a table of what the film took from which book and what it changed, and the record of every adaptation that never got made.

Follow the gunslinger →

How a walk is made

  1. Research. One research pass per book and one for the world: sourced beat sheets, character descriptions in the text’s own words, exact short quotes, and every adaptation that exists or was attempted.
  2. A style shoot-out. The same handful of scenes painted in four candidate styles; the one that suits the series wins. The Dark Tower got epic oil; Welce got Art Nouveau.
  3. Write. A detailed summary of every book, split by its own parts, about thirty captioned frames per book, and a character bible so that everyone looks like themselves from frame one to frame three hundred.
  4. Check, adversarially. A separate fact-checker attacks every page before a frame is painted. The Dark Tower’s checks fixed about 270 errors; Elemental Blessings’ about 150.
  5. Paint and review. Grok paints the frames; every one is looked at, and about a quarter are painted again because someone appeared twice, wore the wrong hat, or read as a child.
  6. Compare and publish. Where there’s a film or a series, it gets its own walk and a page setting it against the books; where there isn’t, the world gets one. Then the walk goes up as its own site and lands on this shelf.