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Deadhouse Gates Sub Press Art

Posted by Phil on Monday, December 19, 2011



Back in August, I posted the cover art for the Subterranean Press limited edition of Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson (the second novel in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series).

The publisher presented a couple of illustrations by artist J.K. Drummond (this limited edition of the book will be out in Spring 2012).  As I said before : "Anyway, Drummond's watercolor works seem to be mostly in the same tones and style..." and it seems that it will be reflected in all his artwork.  I'm not sure I like the Icarium/Mappo (or other Jaghuts if I'm mistaken) depiction and I still don't know who's the girl with the knife but the bloodfly D'ivers is interesting...  Here you go :










6 comments:

Doug M. said...

Are the squatting girl's feet on upside down/backwards... or is it just me? ;)

December 20, 2011 10:56 AM  
Dom said...

I think she's standing on the ball of her feet and what we see is the back of her sandals.. she might be the Whirlwind?

December 21, 2011 1:46 PM  
Ghost said...

I believe the girl should be Apsalar. It's the only character in the book that'll fit.

December 21, 2011 8:15 PM  
Cursed Armada said...

I love this style of artwork... A lot of Erickson fans had some issues with the cover of the girl with the dagger. I think both work really well though!

December 23, 2011 1:09 PM  
Fantasist said...

I like the art work but not the depiction of Icarium and Mappo, they're far uglier than I imagined them to be. Plus they don't emanate power like they should. The artwork doesn't show their characters at all...

Apsalar, if she's Apsalar, doesn't look it either...

February 3, 2012 3:23 PM  
Fantasist said...

I think the girl is felisin, because of the way she's kind of hiding the dagger in the picture and that scene from the book where she tries to kill Baudin.

February 7, 2012 5:56 AM  
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