#the mad ship

[mellowthorn]

Malta & Tintaglia for @roostercrowned's Bingtown Homeward Bound -zine

[brbarou]

too late for her. wide wings hang above her

[izzi-illustrates]

My latest RotE obsession: I finally re-read the Liveship Traders after 10+ years.

Design choices and mild series spoilers below the cut!

I had fun making this one! Particularly with playing with family resemblances that are mentioned in the book, like Wintrow looking a lot like Althea. I chose to make them both look like Ronica, but to also give Keffria Ronica's black eyes - and Wintrow Keffria's worried brows. I also wanted Althea to look a lot like her father - she's the only one with his nose and almost exact colouring.

Selden and Reyn were harder to draw - both have basically no description other than Reyn's eyes glowing through his veil, and Selden starting to scale after meeting Tintaglia, so I made Selden look most like his father in colouring, but more like his mother in the eyes and nose. Reyn I just decided to have fun with and ignored Grag describing him as "able to walk among Bingtowners unremarked" and instead went nuts with the sort of scaling he probably has in the Rainwild quartet later on.

Brashen Trell accidentally came out looking an awful lot like a friend of mine, but I like it.

Malta, my beloathed, my beloved, was one of the hardest to draw; I wanted her to look young, but also overly made up and dressed more maturely than her years. I also wanted to give her some of her father's colouring - since he favours her most of his children - but also her mother's nose and those Vestrit brows, since she's so much Ronica's granddaughter/heir by the end of the series.

[heyitsrink]

“. . . sure as Sa has balls and tits,” is one of the most underrated lines in Liveship Traders.

[theres-no-fool-like-an-old-fool]

'Not all dreams are important, you know. In fact, I wonder if any dreams are important or significant.'

'Mine are.'

[floradelisstuff]

Selden Vestrit from

Ship of Magic The Mad Ship Ship of Destiny Golden Fool City of Dragons Blood of Dragons

The first 3 are photos of one particular boy model heavily edited in Photoshop and BeFunky. The last one is a different model and I am honestly not sure perhaps I overdid it on the scaling... He is more monstrous rather than beautiful... but hey, here it is.

[inthegoodbooks]

The first day of the summer holidays as a teacher means only one thing: a trip to my local library to see what books I can add to the summer TBR. It would be rude to not make use of the cafe facilities too, right?

Hoping to spend an hour or so here to read through more of The Mad Ship, although I must admit it has not been my favourite so far. The first 500 or so pages felt very expositional and I’m not sure the pay off has been worth it so far. I have about 200 pages left to go and I really can feel my eyes start to skim as I get closer to the end.

Let’s hope it picks up soon, but I definitely think a break is in order before I pick up Ship of Destiny…

[jidaryat]

Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship (The Liveship Traders #2)

[mariajamel]

the Vestrit sisters

[theplentynet]

Chapter header illustration for Subterranean Press’ upcoming limited edition of The Mad Ship. Art by John Howe.

[matthewmoorwood]

Everytime I see a man in any of Robin Hobbs books I think: "He can't actually be that bad right?"

And then he turns out to not only be that bad, but worse. And worse. And worse. And worse.

[giuliaisreading]

I hate Kyle so much he’s responsible for all this mess with Vivacia but he has the audacity to blame his own son

[izzi-illustrates]

The lovely Amber of Bingtown x

The Fool / Lord Golden / Beloved

[deviousbastard1]

Some amber and fool doodles :)

It’s not the first time I’ve been called a fool, and likely not the last…😈

[heaartshaped]

I told my sister abt the plot of ship of magic and she tried to draw paragon but she has very limited understanding of how liveships work

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Ships

Round 1 Part 2 Poll 2

Description for Paragon : Age of sail trading vessel, capable of both nautical and river navigation. It may be more specified in the books but I don’t have them in front of me :(

Propaganda for Paragon : Paragon is captained by Brashen Trell, with first mate Althea Vestrit (one of the main characters of the series) He is sentient.

Description for Kingdom Come : The Pirate ship of Captain Brandish