Gavin came in through the doorway and paused in the foyer near the droid detection unit. He twisted left and right, shaking a cloud of Tatooine's fine dust from his tan cloak. Beneath it he wore what was once a white shirt, a black vest, dark brown pants, and knee-high boots. Around his middle he had strapped on a blaster and had tied the lower end of the holster around his right thigh. "Looks the fair pirate, our friend." Mirax raised a hand. "Gavin, over here." Corran agreed with Mirax's assessment, though Gavin's sloppy grin kind of marred the image.
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I'll be doing a lot of traveling in June, so I'm going to go on hiatus with this blog for the next month or so.
While I'd love to illustrate some the lovely space battles featuring the ships for which this series is named... well, I didn't. Instead, here, have an insectoid alien!
Oooh, here, also have a lovely little world-building quote (I eat this stuff up!):
Mirax reached out and brushed a hand over the flesh of Qlaern's right foreknee. "The Vratix find both sound and vision to be deceptive senses. As Qlaern reports it, both sight and sound are things that are of the past the moment you perceive them. Only touch reports information that is concurrent with the gathering."
Today I give you... wilder-nerfs! Which, to be honest, has very, very little to do with this book, except for one brief mention: "Wedge smiled as he watched a herd of wilder-nerfs spread out over a far hill like an inky black stain on the golden carpet." Do nerfs have any significance to the story? No, not really. Why did I choose to sketch them? Because... nerfs! Why would I not want to draw them?
As another brief change of scene from the standard sketches-from-books, today I offer you a rough clay maquette of a book character -- Ixil (plus one of his outrider ferrets, Pax) from Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Hunt.
The Icarus Hunt is one of my all-time-favorite books. You can bet that eventually I'll make a post with sketches from it!
My brother took one look at this book and made a dismissive comment, something along the lines of "That is definitely not my kind of book."
I laughed, because it does look pretty silly on the surface, but it's actually surprisingly engaging. In all fairness, he's probably right about it not being his kind of book. However, I found that despite my own doubts as to whether or not it would be my kind of book... I enjoyed it, and am interested in reading the next in the series.
Sure, it's a book about a "princess academy", but it's also a book by SHANNON HALE, so who cares if the premise sounds silly?
The final exam
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Qui-Gon reached inside the pocket of his robe. "And he reminded me of something important." "A clue?" He handed Obi-Wan a pastry he had plucked from Manex's tray on the way out. "Even in the middle of a mission, don't neglect to taste the pastries."
