Art for Dragaera

[krait]

Okay, so sholio has been having such fun rereading the Dragaera series novels! In a post of hers I mentioned some great art by a friend of the author's and that I'd try to dig it up, because her Orca is my headcanon and I find the version in the books disappointing.

The Lyorn Records contain only broken links, but confirmed the artist I was looking for is Katherine Grantham, and I was able to track it down in my own hard drive. :D




(The *happiest* Tiassa; I love him!)






(The best orca - "Orca circles, hard and lean" suits this much better than the blubbery Earth mammal.)



By the by, Katherine Grantham, nee Marschall, is who the character of Kathana e'Marish'Chala was based on. :D

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Ooh, these are great! The issola looks a little familiar, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen the others -- the orca is suitably nightmarish -- I definitely prefer it to the regular Earth orca in the Cycle art! And I love the self-satisfied expression on the tiassa's face -- it's so nicely feline :D

Thank you for digging up and sharing these!

[krait]

You are welcome!

Finding that all the links in the wiki were broken because they went to Grantham's Elfwood page made me really, really miss Elfwood.



One day I should try to start a "fandom-related artwork amnesty" where people post the oldest fannish image on their hard drive/other storage media...

This thought brought to you by the realisation that I still have tiny low-quality images stolen from fannish 'character shrines' back in the early 2000s, when it took half an hour for a good shrine to load and people jealously guarded their images by disabling right-click and creating 'traps' for hotlinkers. :D