The Illustration Poll Wishlist: Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Jun 20, 2021 9:21:58 GMT
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Post by drmanhattan on Jun 20, 2021 9:21:58 GMT
Probably if I continue this series I will roll the three polls into the same thread so we can vote on our favourite, least favourite and "what's missing" for each book. It would be cool if we had the energy to do all the books and have a gallery of 1 representative picture in the 3 categories for each book.
Basically, the commission is this:
What monster/room/situation/paragraph/whatever in Warlock of Firetop Mountain is most crying out for an illustration or that you were most disappointed not to see an illustration, or would love to see an illustration
Pick 3, with explanation, 1 monster, 1 location/room and 1 of your choice.
for me:
Location:
I think the Maze is such an iconic part of the book that it would be cool (although I suspect difficult) to have a picture looking into some junction at a maze that hints at the "uh oh" trouble many of us found ourselves in..
Monster:
The Gremlin would be my pick, attacking you for messing with the mazemaster, to my mind the mazemaster image actually is a good drawing but didn't fire my imagination as much in retrospect (perhaps instead of the above, they could have had pictures of escher style mazes all over the walls and make the mazemaster look a bit more in your face and smug). The book was published too early to have any Mogwai easter eggs in the image
Item:
I know we have the opened chest (which to be honest, I am not sure I noticed for many many years) but it would be cool with the LOCKED chest, and some kind of intricate art, Tasks of Tantalon style that you could use a magnifying glass, binary codes, logic or something to actually work out which keys you needed, of course that would kind of invalidate having to find them unless they made the keys with another mark, say Key XXX had a word or gem on it, then the chest visual puzzle would identify keys but you would still need to have found them to have the numbers
discussion points, but not included in my 3 votes
(I left out the vampire because we get the coffin room which was great, and vampires show up in lots of other books where they are more the focus)
I also think the other monsters left out are all bog standard fantasy tropes and appear in everything, I thought about the Barbarians to tie in with Throm in Deathtrap Dungeon but in that book the whole point is he becomes an ally, hmm, maybe that would have been cool, a Throm like barbarian for backstory to DD.
Cavemen were next on my list but since wildman is such a key illustration for me, it seemed excessive to have another variant of wild unkempt screaming man with a bone stick.
Basically, the commission is this:
What monster/room/situation/paragraph/whatever in Warlock of Firetop Mountain is most crying out for an illustration or that you were most disappointed not to see an illustration, or would love to see an illustration
Pick 3, with explanation, 1 monster, 1 location/room and 1 of your choice.
for me:
Location:
I think the Maze is such an iconic part of the book that it would be cool (although I suspect difficult) to have a picture looking into some junction at a maze that hints at the "uh oh" trouble many of us found ourselves in..
Monster:
The Gremlin would be my pick, attacking you for messing with the mazemaster, to my mind the mazemaster image actually is a good drawing but didn't fire my imagination as much in retrospect (perhaps instead of the above, they could have had pictures of escher style mazes all over the walls and make the mazemaster look a bit more in your face and smug). The book was published too early to have any Mogwai easter eggs in the image
Item:
I know we have the opened chest (which to be honest, I am not sure I noticed for many many years) but it would be cool with the LOCKED chest, and some kind of intricate art, Tasks of Tantalon style that you could use a magnifying glass, binary codes, logic or something to actually work out which keys you needed, of course that would kind of invalidate having to find them unless they made the keys with another mark, say Key XXX had a word or gem on it, then the chest visual puzzle would identify keys but you would still need to have found them to have the numbers
discussion points, but not included in my 3 votes
(I left out the vampire because we get the coffin room which was great, and vampires show up in lots of other books where they are more the focus)
I also think the other monsters left out are all bog standard fantasy tropes and appear in everything, I thought about the Barbarians to tie in with Throm in Deathtrap Dungeon but in that book the whole point is he becomes an ally, hmm, maybe that would have been cool, a Throm like barbarian for backstory to DD.
Cavemen were next on my list but since wildman is such a key illustration for me, it seemed excessive to have another variant of wild unkempt screaming man with a bone stick.
