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

[sholio]

Oooh! Thank you so much for digging these up; I love them! (The orca. YIKES. XD)

I am also very charmed by Brust writing a friend into his book in that way.

WHEE, DRAGAERA. :D

[rachelmanija]

Ooh, I love the Tiassa.

[edenfalling]

Oooh, nifty!

[zdenka]

Ooh, I like them! They look suitably alien.

I did not know that about Kathana! That's cool, especially since she's a great character.

[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!