Guys I think Sanderson is a classical patron in the making. Like, he just occasionally hires artists because he feel like it. Then lets their imaginations run wild because he thinks it cool and will impress people. We get many more like him and a new renaissance could spontaneously form.
I always think about how, after the incredible success of his four surprise novels Kickstarter, he personally funded all the other writing related Kickstarters that were in place at that moment!
@@talldaveh Let's be technically correct here... he didn't *fund* all of them, but he did contribute to all of them! Pushed some to the edge if they were close and didn't seem like they were going to make it.
Oh my gosh! I did my first stained glass workshop today and I'm in love. I love D&D, bright boho hippie colours and then I see this on YT!? 😍🤩 this Is fan-bloody-tastiC !!! What's the name of your studio? Do you have IG?
I noticed some of the changes for the Elantris work from Jian Guo’s original which I assume Sanderson requested explicitly. I am specifically curious about the orange and yellow emblem next to Hrathen. Is that supposed to be a skaze? A Dakhor symbol? Both? Neither? Given the Aon Shao on the opposite side, is it just the Aon Ela?
These are absolutely gorgeous! After the third window I couldn't help myself anymore and started Googling for stained glass classes near me. I've literally never seen stained glass as vibrant as this.
I was able to take a beginners stained glass class from Holdman studios, and I saw the Way of Kings piece in progress. The instructor just said that it was a project for a local author, but I knew instantly 😂
LOVED seeing these stained glass pieces, and hearing the stories behind them. Suggestion for a future art video: spend the majority of the camera time on the art. _Watching_ two guys talking about an art piece that we as the viewers can't see very well is not as interesting as _listening_ to two guys talking about an art piece that the camera is focused on and panning over.
I also second that! Especially as I haven't read any of his books for financial reasons (the Hobbit and WoT of course years ago and still rereading again and again)!
This is the most me bait video that could exist. The people on the 17th shard know how much I adore stained glass, to the point that my novel centers it as a craft. I've always wanted this tour of Brandon's windows, and they're simply incredible. Also loved hearing about the process. I was nodding my head so hard when James mentioned the antique glass used. Hopefully one day I'll get my own cover by Jian because it would really be perfect.
I have been waiting for this walkthrough…and when you talked about The White Dragon I cried. I had such a similar experience growing up… Ruth and Jaxom forever immortalized. I’m just in love with that piece!
This guy is very professional. No matter what you're asking him he still has hands forward or hands back, he almost looks like a soldier. There is such a passion and he is so good at just waiting until you ask him the questions that you need before saying anything this is so amazingly well done. And the work itself is incredible. It is so cool to be on the inside of this and really see what effort his team put in as well. I guarantee they went through he'll to get this done. And he's talking about it so humble. While consistently making sure he gives the correct amount of credit to the artists that he is depicting the works from. This is art within itself and I love the explanation and how they go through it. I am so glad that I am alive during the time of Brandon Sanderson❤
I am so glad Brandon started with WOT. I found Brandon through Wheel of Time. After completing memory of light I started stormlight archive and slowly got sucked into the fandom.
I love that you have a window for The Belgariad! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve reread this series and The Mallorean. David Eddings was my introduction to fantasy when I was in junior high. All of the windows are beautiful works of art. Such an incredible body of work!
ugh i wish you could do prints of them all! i love that you picked the white dragon from dragonriders of pern, that's my favorite. always know when you are :) so glad you showed these off, such amazing work!!
Been looking forward to a video tour for years, so happy to have a means of sharing these pieces with people now with a single source to link them. Love Jian's work, and these pieces are all truly beautiful.
Wow! These stain glass murals are spellbinding. I could stare at them for hours. So much detail and innovative techniques to achieve their splendor. Warbreaker was my favorite!
I was not prepared for how amazing it all looks, and the amount of details. Artists being allowed to show off both their skill and passion really provides results beyond expectation. These are beautiful ❤❤
This video feels like a celebration of art and creativity. I was grinning the whole way through and I love seeing how deeply Brandon appreciate other arts and mediums. Thank you for the gorgeous video!
These are beautiful! I'm learning to leadlight from my Dad and we both read Sanderson so watching this together was a gift! Glad to see artists in the field are continuing to innovate.
Thank you for sharing this with us! Your generosity and openess with your fans is just amazing and I hope you know how much we appreciate it, and appreciate you and your talent!
This was amazing to watch! I can only imagine how beautiful these stained glass windows are in person. Thank you for making this video. This was such a treat.
THE BLUE SWORD!!! This has been one of my favorite books since age 11 or so. Most people have never read it, so I was surprised and delighted to learn it is Emily’s favorite. Yet another reason to love the Sandersons. Harimad Sol!
sanderson is out here living my dream, having a hallway of stained glass just bc you want it is so cool (also how does one just casually say "yeah i have a tunnel lined with stained glass that goes between my house and my underground office"?? that's amazing)
I really love art of Jian Guo (for years), stained glass and, of course - FANTASY! 🤗💖 Very good choise of arts to put on this work, but Hobbit is the best imo... Incredible art and craftmanship by Holdman Studios! LOVE it! 🥰
As a Geologist who teaches Mineralogy, and Properties of Minerals and Materials, its fantastic to see how they used Amethyst, Obsidian and other rocks and minerals in the art work.
As someone slowly ramping up to chase that writing dream, it is absolutely a future aspiration to be able to pay amazing artists to just... create. Take things inspired by the vision in my head and have other people make them real. So cool to see that embodied here.
Really enjoyed this tour. Have wanted to see the stained glass collection for years, even had to wait to watch the video until I had the time to focus and really appreciate the artwork.
I just started teaching myself stained glass as a hobby earlier this year, so this is so inspiring to see!! I hope one day my work can be even a fraction as epic as this!
So Sanderson is my favorite author, of all time and I knew that he had read the Dragonriders of Pern and loved that because I devoured these in my teens, and I own them all. But I had no idea that he also loved the Blue Sword and The Belgariad. All three of these books are in my top 10 series, I have loved these books for so long and re-read them regularly. That is crazy, no wonder he is my fave author lol.
As a big Belgariad and David Eddings fan (shoutout to my dad for introducing me to his books), I was not expecting to see art of it and Brandon talking about loving them as a teen! I had a very similar experience as a teen 😭
This is incredibly special and cool! I love hearing about the details processes and story behind how these came about. I wish I could see them in person omg your house is so cool!!!!!!!!
It's interesting how on the Elantris piece, the three characters also kinda ended representing a triforce, in however small way. Green for courage, red for power, purple for wisdom.
Yeah, he did another video on it a few months ago and there's been some articles on it. They bought the plot next door and did a ton of construction to make a bunker, and then covered it back up with driveway so you can't tell that it's there at all. It's also got a huge meeting room with a giant fishtank, and a personal movie theater. RUclips really doesn't like it when you drop links but do a search for brandon-sanderson-built-an-underground-lair-in-suburban-utah and you should get a calnewport article that has some good pics.
Yup! He's also got a movie theater and giant aquarium down there! This site doesn't like dropping links, but look for brandon sanderson underground lair and you should be able to find photos.
I loved David Eddings. Before I started Wheel of Time in the early 1990s, David Eddings was my favorite fantasy author. I wish Brandon had chosen the Elenium (the first Sparhawk trilogy) over the Belgariad. When I re read Eddings' series as an adult, I found the Elenium much more enjoyable than the Belgariad. I would love to have seen how the original cover of the Diamond Throne looked as a stain glass window. Sparhawk kneeling in front of the Queen sitting in her state robes and crown encased in a diamond.
now that James Graham has been invited to Brandon's house, we just have to wait for the article talking about how Brandon's a chill guy that likes to hear Hugh Jackman sing
Guys
I think Sanderson is a classical patron in the making. Like, he just occasionally hires artists because he feel like it. Then lets their imaginations run wild because he thinks it cool and will impress people. We get many more like him and a new renaissance could spontaneously form.
I always think about how, after the incredible success of his four surprise novels Kickstarter, he personally funded all the other writing related Kickstarters that were in place at that moment!
This is IMO the best way to spend surplus wealth. He's literally enriching the culture around him.
I love this thought.
@@talldaveh Let's be technically correct here... he didn't *fund* all of them, but he did contribute to all of them! Pushed some to the edge if they were close and didn't seem like they were going to make it.
@@talldaveh Even the bad ones.
It was such a pleasure working on these windows! Thank you for doing a reveal Brandon.
Oh my gosh! I did my first stained glass workshop today and I'm in love. I love D&D, bright boho hippie colours and then I see this on YT!? 😍🤩 this Is fan-bloody-tastiC !!! What's the name of your studio? Do you have IG?
@@TToBBaTime It was done when I worked at Holdman Studios, where the windows were built.
Glad you enjoyed making stained glass! It is fun.
I noticed some of the changes for the Elantris work from Jian Guo’s original which I assume Sanderson requested explicitly. I am specifically curious about the orange and yellow emblem next to Hrathen. Is that supposed to be a skaze? A Dakhor symbol? Both? Neither? Given the Aon Shao on the opposite side, is it just the Aon Ela?
It’s funny that Brandon is talking about stain glass, given that he uses windowpane writing.
Artists talking about their art is my favorite Sanderson sub-genre video
Same
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Someone of the Tenth Heightening will definitely love these
Our team had an amazing time creating these windows. Excited to see them unveiled! Thank you Brandon for putting your trust in us.
You guys did outstanding work, hats off to your team!
These are absolutely gorgeous! After the third window I couldn't help myself anymore and started Googling for stained glass classes near me. I've literally never seen stained glass as vibrant as this.
I was able to take a beginners stained glass class from Holdman studios, and I saw the Way of Kings piece in progress. The instructor just said that it was a project for a local author, but I knew instantly 😂
That's amazing!
Sanderson said "office", but I'm certain we all thought "lair".
These are works of art!
LOVED seeing these stained glass pieces, and hearing the stories behind them. Suggestion for a future art video: spend the majority of the camera time on the art. _Watching_ two guys talking about an art piece that we as the viewers can't see very well is not as interesting as _listening_ to two guys talking about an art piece that the camera is focused on and panning over.
Agreed. I found myself trying to squint to see what they were speaking about
Agreed!! I want close-ups! 😭🥰
I also second that! Especially as I haven't read any of his books for financial reasons (the Hobbit and WoT of course years ago and still rereading again and again)!
@@hiltrud2001 use a library
they should have added B-roll of the art, i know its harder to edit but worth it
Jian Guo is a stained glass art master. 😍 Thanks for the tour, Brandon!
As a stained glass artist and big Sanderson fan, I have been waiting for this tour!
Amazing work!
Is sassy glassy your company? That's awesome you get to see this !
Also, are you a big Renarin fan because of his power set with stained glass?
@@hubrisnxs2013 Sassy Glassy is my company name, yes 😄
And I love the depiction of how he sees things as stained glass fractals
Wow, this is so beautiful! I love that Sanderson hires artists and just lets them go wild! I love hearing artists talk about their art
This is the most me bait video that could exist. The people on the 17th shard know how much I adore stained glass, to the point that my novel centers it as a craft. I've always wanted this tour of Brandon's windows, and they're simply incredible. Also loved hearing about the process. I was nodding my head so hard when James mentioned the antique glass used. Hopefully one day I'll get my own cover by Jian because it would really be perfect.
What is your book called?
@@aguy3129 A Flood of Broken Glass. Still in progress so you won't find it anywhere.
I have been waiting for this walkthrough…and when you talked about The White Dragon I cried. I had such a similar experience growing up… Ruth and Jaxom forever immortalized. I’m just in love with that piece!
This guy is very professional. No matter what you're asking him he still has hands forward or hands back, he almost looks like a soldier. There is such a passion and he is so good at just waiting until you ask him the questions that you need before saying anything this is so amazingly well done. And the work itself is incredible. It is so cool to be on the inside of this and really see what effort his team put in as well. I guarantee they went through he'll to get this done. And he's talking about it so humble. While consistently making sure he gives the correct amount of credit to the artists that he is depicting the works from. This is art within itself and I love the explanation and how they go through it. I am so glad that I am alive during the time of Brandon Sanderson❤
I am so glad Brandon started with WOT. I found Brandon through Wheel of Time. After completing memory of light I started stormlight archive and slowly got sucked into the fandom.
I found him that way, too! And as I don't have enough money for new books, I follow everything BS and WoT on RUclips !
I love that you have a window for The Belgariad! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve reread this series and The Mallorean. David Eddings was my introduction to fantasy when I was in junior high. All of the windows are beautiful works of art. Such an incredible body of work!
ugh i wish you could do prints of them all!
i love that you picked the white dragon from dragonriders of pern, that's my favorite. always know when you are :)
so glad you showed these off, such amazing work!!
Been looking forward to a video tour for years, so happy to have a means of sharing these pieces with people now with a single source to link them. Love Jian's work, and these pieces are all truly beautiful.
Wow! These stain glass murals are spellbinding. I could stare at them for hours. So much detail and innovative techniques to achieve their splendor. Warbreaker was my favorite!
I was not prepared for how amazing it all looks, and the amount of details. Artists being allowed to show off both their skill and passion really provides results beyond expectation.
These are beautiful ❤❤
This video feels like a celebration of art and creativity. I was grinning the whole way through and I love seeing how deeply Brandon appreciate other arts and mediums. Thank you for the gorgeous video!
These are beautiful! I'm learning to leadlight from my Dad and we both read Sanderson so watching this together was a gift! Glad to see artists in the field are continuing to innovate.
Thank you for sharing this with us! Your generosity and openess with your fans is just amazing and I hope you know how much we appreciate it, and appreciate you and your talent!
This was amazing to watch! I can only imagine how beautiful these stained glass windows are in person. Thank you for making this video. This was such a treat.
These are beautiful! Well done to the team who created them. Nailed every single one.
As a stained glass enthusiast and a fantasy lover, this is a dream!
THE BLUE SWORD!!! This has been one of my favorite books since age 11 or so. Most people have never read it, so I was surprised and delighted to learn it is Emily’s favorite. Yet another reason to love the Sandersons. Harimad Sol!
What book is that?
sanderson is out here living my dream, having a hallway of stained glass just bc you want it is so cool
(also how does one just casually say "yeah i have a tunnel lined with stained glass that goes between my house and my underground office"?? that's amazing)
The Dragonriders of Pern was what got me into fantasy!!! I love the window for it. Gorgeous. They all are.
Those pieces are stunning. Thank you for opening up that part of your home to us!
I really love art of Jian Guo (for years), stained glass and, of course - FANTASY! 🤗💖
Very good choise of arts to put on this work, but Hobbit is the best imo...
Incredible art and craftmanship by Holdman Studios! LOVE it! 🥰
These are awesome on film, but so much cooler in person. It is fun to hear him talk about the pieces and their significance to him as well
As a Geologist who teaches Mineralogy, and Properties of Minerals and Materials, its fantastic to see how they used Amethyst, Obsidian and other rocks and minerals in the art work.
I’m dying for a full tour of the lair
These stained glass pieces are absolutely stunning. I love that you have shared this video with the fandom. So fun!!
As someone slowly ramping up to chase that writing dream, it is absolutely a future aspiration to be able to pay amazing artists to just... create. Take things inspired by the vision in my head and have other people make them real. So cool to see that embodied here.
They are all gorgeous! It was a pleasant surprise to see The Blue Sword!
Really enjoyed this tour. Have wanted to see the stained glass collection for years, even had to wait to watch the video until I had the time to focus and really appreciate the artwork.
I just started teaching myself stained glass as a hobby earlier this year, so this is so inspiring to see!! I hope one day my work can be even a fraction as epic as this!
Dragonriders of Pern was some of my earliest dragon reads. Cool memories, I need to go back and read the rest of them.
I am so in love with this concept and execution. The windows are stunning. I would love the chance to see them one day if it were ever possible!
So Sanderson is my favorite author, of all time and I knew that he had read the Dragonriders of Pern and loved that because I devoured these in my teens, and I own them all. But I had no idea that he also loved the Blue Sword and The Belgariad. All three of these books are in my top 10 series, I have loved these books for so long and re-read them regularly. That is crazy, no wonder he is my fave author lol.
I absolutely LOVE The Blue Sword! I read everything by Robin McKinley as a teenager and I think her books are part of why I still love fantasy today.
As a big Belgariad and David Eddings fan (shoutout to my dad for introducing me to his books), I was not expecting to see art of it and Brandon talking about loving them as a teen! I had a very similar experience as a teen 😭
Same it was so good!! Very cool. My dad introduced me to them as well!
Wish I could like that video at least ten times! What an amazing job!
Wow simply amazing. This will be a walkway in a museum 500 years from now that people feel wonder and awe at.
This is incredibly special and cool! I love hearing about the details processes and story behind how these came about. I wish I could see them in person omg your house is so cool!!!!!!!!
My two special interests! I would love to spend an hour mesmerized by these stained glass panels
wow what a beautiful art, I almost cried on how pretty it is.
I saw those before, they were really cool. Awesome to see Dragonsteel commission another great fanartist.
Something tells me this guy is gona be busy making windows on dragonsteel plaza.😏👍👍❤️❤️ lovely work.
These are EXQUISITE. Absolutely incredible.
Hi!!! Have an amazing weekend whoever reads this comment
You too!
Brandon, you're a few years younger than me, but we connected on the same writers as kids. I think that must be why I enjoy you so much as a person 🎉
I loved this video!
Thank you for posting it.
literally got to see these in person a week ago! So cool to get the tour now and learn more about these pieces!
Storms, each one of those windows has to be like, 6 grand a piece. Masterpieces.
Wow. That was incredible. Thank you for making this video,
It's interesting how on the Elantris piece, the three characters also kinda ended representing a triforce, in however small way. Green for courage, red for power, purple for wisdom.
Sanderson is becoming art patron thank you
these are incredible, thank you for sharing them!
So COOL! 😃 I wish I had a stained glass staircase like this 😄💙📚
Beautiful art 😍 Thank you for showing it for us ❤
this is SO COOL!!!! THANK YOU for sharing
SO AMAZING! I want all of them!!!
This is so incredible, this art is truly beautiful!
Every video just leaves me more in awe! Brandon, I think that arched ceiling is perfect for a paining or more stained glass ;)
Such beautiful, incredible work!
What a way to transfer to the imagination. ❤so cool.
I was able to go to the lair and see these in person. They are incredible!
Thanks for sharing Brandon.
wait, buried the lead there. the art is fantastic. I love it. but you have a tunnel between your house and your office??
Yeah, he did another video on it a few months ago and there's been some articles on it. They bought the plot next door and did a ton of construction to make a bunker, and then covered it back up with driveway so you can't tell that it's there at all. It's also got a huge meeting room with a giant fishtank, and a personal movie theater.
RUclips really doesn't like it when you drop links but do a search for
brandon-sanderson-built-an-underground-lair-in-suburban-utah and you should get a calnewport article that has some good pics.
@robbybevard8034 cheers!
Yup! He's also got a movie theater and giant aquarium down there!
This site doesn't like dropping links, but look for brandon sanderson underground lair and you should be able to find photos.
These are absolutely AMAZING.
Wish I could see these in person. They look amazing
This is the biggest flex I've ever seen.
@@davidwalley648 lol🤣❤️
And we're totally here for it!
It would be really cool to see a video montage of the glass artists working on a piece.
I agree 100%!
We will have to show some behind the scenes of these windows being created!
So beautiful, I would love if there was a way to get a digitlized version of them, to use them as wallpapes or something like that.
I assume this means they are also commissioning more pieces for a reveal at dragonsteel village? A huge cosmere one would be amazing
Now all you need are some Stormlight Bas-Reliefs to really finish out that Church of the Cosmere aesthetic 😍😍
Would love an extended b reel cut with more detail shots of the glass!
Awesome artist, so much talent!!
Gorgeous and so cool!
I love these, even if it reminds me how lame my apartment is lol.
My favoret one so far is the white dragon one😮😮👍👍🔥😎😎
Thank you for sharing!
I loved David Eddings. Before I started Wheel of Time in the early 1990s, David Eddings was my favorite fantasy author. I wish Brandon had chosen the Elenium (the first Sparhawk trilogy) over the Belgariad. When I re read Eddings' series as an adult, I found the Elenium much more enjoyable than the Belgariad. I would love to have seen how the original cover of the Diamond Throne looked as a stain glass window. Sparhawk kneeling in front of the Queen sitting in her state robes and crown encased in a diamond.
thanks! these are awesome.
This is so beautiful.
These are *stunning*
Wow this is awesome
Gorgeous!
now that James Graham has been invited to Brandon's house, we just have to wait for the article talking about how Brandon's a chill guy that likes to hear Hugh Jackman sing
Hey props. This looks amazing.
Okay when will prints be available? I need that TWoK 😍
"I wont spoil it" proceeds to spoil almost everything about the figure in the middle.
Brandon is like the fantasy author version of Jay Z, but way more down to earth
Amazing!
Please make that playmat image into a puzzle (at least 1000 pc). I would definitely buy it.
That Hobbit piece is amazingly beautiful.
This house is crazy!