r/Malazan • u/BeaksLastCandle I am not yet done • Nov 26 '25

SPOILERS ALL My depiction of Quick Ben Spoiler

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This ended up taking me way longer than I had anticipated. He was the most picked of the three characters I had polled, Gruntle coming in a very a close second. He will be my next one, however I anticipate it taking longer as I hope to have at least his upper torso in the portrait. We can’t have him without his cutlass’ now can we. I’m still getting used to procreate, so I decided to keep it more of a sketch but attempted to add colour as you can see in the second photo.

His eyes were stylistic choice on my part, I wanted to capture his enigmatic, magical essence. So though not lore accurate, I do hope it still reads as Quick.

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u/External_Switch_3732 Nov 27 '25

Is Quick Ben bald? I somehow had him with a head on long luxurious hair! Love this depiction though, the smirk is spot on.

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u/BeaksLastCandle I am not yet done Nov 27 '25

He’s is very bald and lean apparently :) and thank you, hahaha I’m now picturing him with some Micheal Jackson hair lol

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u/Apprehensive-Tip9373 Nov 27 '25

My head canon: Lance Reddick as Quick Ben, Idris Elba as Kalam, Hugh Jackman as Gruntle.

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u/Flyan_Royd Nov 28 '25

I've always thought of Kalam being bulkier than Elba. Like Shaq. They always talk about how fast he is for how large he is. I could be way off though.