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Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"

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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by SilverbladeTE   » Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:58 pm

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Isilith wrote:
I had a love hate relationship with Dark Sun, Ugh.

That said, I liked Spelljammer, but it never felt like you were playing D&D.

Sorry, D&D (Well, table top RPG in general) nerd here. A made in the UK game is still one of my favorites, Warhammer fantasy RP.



Why love/hate, the psionic system? :)
Loved the art, setting etc

This is most of my Dark Sun art, had dot.com for ages but don't any more so just keep my art on Deviantart, FAcebook etc now

https://m.facebook.com/Silverblade.the.Enchanter/albums/862047627287222/?ref=bookmarks
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Isilith   » Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:11 pm

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SilverbladeTE wrote:
Isilith wrote:
I had a love hate relationship with Dark Sun, Ugh.

That said, I liked Spelljammer, but it never felt like you were playing D&D.

Sorry, D&D (Well, table top RPG in general) nerd here. A made in the UK game is still one of my favorites, Warhammer fantasy RP.



Why love/hate, the psionic system? :)
Loved the art, setting etc

This is most of my Dark Sun art, had dot.com for ages but don't any more so just keep my art on Deviantart, FAcebook etc now

https://m.facebook.com/Silverblade.the.Enchanter/albums/862047627287222/?ref=bookmarks


Do you have them in non postage stamp size? :D
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by SilverbladeTE   » Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:42 pm

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Isilith wrote:
Do you have them in non postage stamp size? :D



sigh, bloody Facebook strikes again! *face palm* :roll: :lol:

if you click VIEW FULL SIZED you'll see them right :)

and this is my Deviantart DarkSun section

https://www.deviantart.com/silverbladet ... 1/dark-sun
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by FMHiggins   » Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:04 pm

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Honomer wrote:By chapters: Thank you! These are excellent! Cheers

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https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_1.png
Nimue's "awakening"

August, Year of God 890
I - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_2.png
Assassination attempt of Cayleb
XI - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_3.png
The incident at Duke Tirian's mansion

September, Year of God 890
II - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_4.png
Merlin explains the Arabic numerals to Сayleb

November, Year of God 890
II - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_5.png
Merlin's and Сayleb's exercises in fencing
IV - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_6.png
Merlin demonstrates shooting from a new rifle

February, Year of God 891
I - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_7.png
Merlin save kids from the krakens

August, Year of God 891
I - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_8.png
Meeting of father Paityr and archbishop Erayk

October, Year of God 891
V - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_9.png
Prince Nahrmahn and his wife play chess

November, Year of God 891
IV - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_10.png
The fall of archbishop Erayk
V - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_11.png
Defeat of Baron Tanlyr Keep squadron.

February, Year of God 892
VI - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_12.png
Night attack of Crag Reach by Cayleb's squadron

March, Year of God 892
I - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_13.png
Burning ships of the Earl of Thirsk in Crag Reach
X - https://libmir.com/i/13/346713/_14.png
King Haarahld saves midshipman Aplyn
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Guillaume   » Sun Dec 22, 2019 2:35 pm

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Honomer wrote:
SilverbladeTE wrote:fan art?

In a manner, it's fan art. These illustrations were never officially published as part of a printed book.

But they are created by a professional Russian artist and illustrator Sergey Zakharoff precisely as illustrations for "OAR". And at the moment he is drawing illustrations for "Schism".



If he was hired to make them by an editor, even if they didn't make it in the final product it's difficult to qualify them as fan art. Now I'm just making a WAG based on western European way of doing things. ( where we have our own covers, illustrations and all... in each country )
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Honomer   » Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:39 am

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FMHiggins wrote:These are excellent! Cheers


Which ones did you like the most? ;)
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Honomer   » Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:43 am

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Guillaume wrote:If he was hired to make them by an editor, even if they didn't make it in the final product it's difficult to qualify them as fan art. Now I'm just making a WAG based on western European way of doing things. ( where we have our own covers, illustrations and all... in each country )


Yeah, it's not really fan art. This is a work that was made to order.
Now Sergey creates drawings for BSRA. ;)
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by SilverbladeTE   » Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:32 pm

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Regarding different counties having different novel art..

here in the UK we always had different novel cover art for scifi and fantasy books from the 1960s to 80s than American versions and sorry Colonial Cousins :P but ours was usually MUCH better! ;)

Actually an interesting thing you should look up, folks
some OUTSTANDING artworks were used, like Bruce Pennington, Chris Foss, Christos Achilleos, etc :)
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Honomer   » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:58 am

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Illustrations for the "By schism rent asunder"
By chapters:

May, Year of God 892
II - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_1.png
Prince Hector inspects the galley

June, Year of God 892
V - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_2.png
Meeting Ahnzhelyk and Ailys
VIII - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_3.png
Execution Of Erayk Dynnis
XIII - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_4.png
The assassination attempt on Archbishop Maikel

July, Year of God 892
I - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_5.png
Royal Collge
IV - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_6.png
Merlin's visit to the monastery of San-Zherneau

August, Year of God 892
III - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_7.png
Father Paityr
V - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_8.png
Earl Tirsk
IX - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_9.png
Sharleyan's arrival in Tellesberg
XIII - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_10.png
Ferayd´s massacre

September, Year of God 892
III - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_11.png
Prince Nahrmahn's vassal oath

October, Year of God 892
III - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_12.png
A ball on the occasion of the betrothal of Cayleb's brother and Nahrmahn's daughter.
IV - https://coollib.net/i/33/472133/_13.png
Attack on Ferayd
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Re: Illustrations for the "Off Armageddon Reef"
Post by Dilandu   » Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:04 am

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Excellent art!
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Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.

(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
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