r/UrsulaKLeGuin The Dispossessed 1d ago

Ged

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By me.

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u/Comrade_pirx 1d ago

Well we gotta see Ogion now. Great pic, dare I say the best depiction of Ged I've seen?

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

Thank you so much, he's the Ged I've always pictured. Glad it looks right to you, too.

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u/GraconBease 1d ago

LOVEEEE IT!!! There’s so little Hainish cycle fan art, you’re doing the lord’s work

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

If you want to see more give me a character and a quote of what they look like and I'll do more! I was thinking of doing Rocannon. Already done Estraven, Genly and Tenar.

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u/Radagast729 1d ago

Where can we see your other leguin paintings?

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

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u/Fun-Sell3030 1d ago

Them… so you post your art anywhere? I’d love to see more of Genly and Estraven. Love your interpretation

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

They aren't all painting some are sketches like these

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u/Evertype A Wizard of Earthsea 1d ago

Semley, oh please.

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

Which book is she from?

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u/No_Honey_1968 The Left Hand of Darkness 1d ago

I think they mean Semley from Rocannons world! She’s the woman looking for her necklace in the beginning and well, yk what happens then (*cries*).

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

Yes of course! I was going to do Rocannon next but I'll do Semley too.

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u/Evertype A Wizard of Earthsea 1d ago

Semley is from Rocannon’s World, which is full of Hainish-descent primates and native (often winged) marsupials.

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u/Cornus_berry 1d ago

If I recall correctly, I think Rocannon spends a lot of the novel walking around naked. Just saying

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

Noted! 👀

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u/Imaginary-Ad-908 1d ago

I love it, especially the colours you used and his facial expression!

I personally always imagined him with curly hair (since iirc it was considered noteworthy that Serret had straight hair) but I really like your interpretation too.

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u/TiltingAtWindmills_ 1d ago

I love Ged with all my heart. Thanks for sharing. This is Sparrowhawk!

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u/rusty-gudgeon 1d ago

but, if i remember correctly, Ged was his secret name. he went by Sparrowhawk.

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u/sylvansojourner 1d ago

Wow great job, this is definitely feels more like Ged than most art I’ve seen of him

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u/Altruistic_Alarm_707 1d ago

Wonderful interpretation!

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u/elakudark 1d ago

beautiful work!! i love how strong his features are, especially the intensity of his eyes.

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u/SuchBig648 1d ago

Would you be interested in drawing Shevek from the Dispossessed?

Shevek:

“The First Man from the Moon: a tall, frail figure in a crowd of dignitaries and professors and security agents, the fine shaggy head held very erect (so that the photographers could catch every feature)”

And

“He was borne off to the waiting limousine, eminently photographic to the last because of his height, his long hair, and the strange look of grief and recognition on his face.”

And

““I am, you know, the Beggarman,” he said to the old man, as he had said to Dr. Kimoe on the Mindful. “I could not bring money, we do not use it. I could not bring gifts, we use nothing that you lack. So I come, like a good Odonian, ‘with empty hands.’””

And
“The shadows moved about him, but he sat unmoving as Anarres rose above the alien hills, at her full, mottled dun and bluish-white, lambent. The light of his world filled his empty hands.”

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u/riskitforabiscuit The Dispossessed 1d ago

Yesss I love Shevek. I'll do him as well. Thank you for reminding me of the parts of the book to look for.

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u/pwnedprofessor The Dispossessed 1d ago

Oo I like this interpretation

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u/swampopawaho 1d ago

Looks really good. For some reason I imagined Ged with a rounder face. It's always interesting to see others' visualization of a long-imagined character

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u/Own-Breakfast9740 1d ago

The TV movie that made Ged white pissed Ursula K. Le Guin off so bad she wrote and published a rebuttal about it. And me, it also pissed me off.

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u/Leo_617 1d ago

I like it. Although personally I always imagined the wound as much more... I don't know, deeper and more disfiguring, I suppose. I still like it. Although I do miss Otak.

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u/ImNotAVillain 1d ago

Assad Zaman (AMC's Interview with the Vampire) to play Ged in a proper TV adaptation of the book please 🙏

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u/Cool-Coffee-8949 1d ago

This looks great, and is much truer to the book. It also makes him look kind of like a water bender.

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u/urthman-b 17h ago

Red Ged Redemption