Quick Warding Contest entry from Bill in Florida. He is apparently getting ready to go out into the Gulf and harpoon the oil demons threatening his beautiful coastline.
Hey ya Peter,
Its Bill again. This is my personal spear. Etching and woodburning are still needed, and the damn thing is more of a harpoon, but I love the feel of it! Hope u enjoy!
Bill
I have a few more Warding Contest entries to post before I leave for vacation on Thursday, but I will have my iPad with me, so I should theoretically be able to post more from the beach, while drunk on frou-frou frozen girly drinks with little umbrellas. Contest ends on July 1 (the day I get back), and Lauren and I will be meeting soon after to pick a winner and co-sign the prizes.
These two entries, the first from Lisa in Germany and the second from Gaz in the UK seemed to go hand in hand—at least in my mind, which I realize probably works differently than most people’s. Both are gorgeous work, both from a warding and a photo composition standpoint.
I will be so sad when this contest is over.
Hi Peter, Hi Lauren,
This is my second entry (the first one is the hooded picture of me with red wards in my face). It took a little bit longer than the first one, because I genetically engineered my pets to display ward patterns on their wings.
Well, at least that’s what I wanted to do, but then I had second thoughts. After all I’ve no idea what the core magic might do to those innocent beetles. For all that I know they could grow to the size of a horse and start feeding on humans. So I decided to paint the wards with watercolor instead.
I can still try the evil scientist stuff when I know more about the effects.
Lisa
Germany
Hey Peat,
This idea came from The Desert Spear when Arlen takes his compadres Rojer, Gared and Leesha into one of his hidden ruins along the road and gives them a choice of many treasures. I believe that this warded guitar was overlooked by Rojer and he missed out on a powerful instrument. The guitar is extremely good at firing power chords straight up the arse of corelings or could be given to an apprentice musician to save having a limb torn off.
Using a sharpie, my trusted old guitar, back garden and my brother’s camera knowledge helped to achieve this. I must admit drawing wards is bloody hard (probably best left to Lauren and Arlen).
Love the books Peat, keep it up mate. 🙂
Gazza
UK
Today’s entry in the Warding Contest comes from Blake in Alaska, with the help of his lovely fiancée, Jordan. If you’ve got demon troubles, it’s the next best thing to sunlight:
Hi peter! Its your biggest fan ever! in Alaska haha Had my future wife help me with this one she’s reading the desert spear and is loving it so far =]
I put a few pics in you don’t have to put them all up just what ever ones you like best i guess.
Ok so here are my entries hope you like them I put some quality time in em =].
So warding on wrinkled paper sucks hard core ( haha said core) I wanted it to be more like a defensive lantern, one that shined wards on the surroundings, maybe even demons themselves. I also put 2 pressure wards on each side so if they happen to get past the weak ward net they wouldn’t without feeling some pressure! haha hope everyone likes it, I also made a portable ward circle for it just incase they tried to pull a fast one while I sleep haha.
-Blake
Remember, the contest ends July 1, so if you’re planning to enter, the clock is ticking!
As I’ve said, we all have our priorities. Based on her wonderful entries to the Warding Contest, JoAnna from Springfield apparently puts her copy of The Desert Spear first, and her children second. But so long as she’s keeping them warded, it still put her ahead of all you other parents out there, who obviously do not love your children enough to keep them safe from corelings:
Greetings Mr. Brett and Ms. Cannon,
I was inspired for my entry by Arlen warding the library. For surely knowledge is, next to our loved ones, the most important thing we can endeavor to protect. I had planned to ward my bookshelves, however, I could not devise a way to beautifully ward these particular shelves, which just happen to be rather homely. So on to plan ‘B.’ I decided to make a cloth dust jacket.
I used my copy of The Desert Spear to get the measurements and then proceeded to ward the fabric. It is made of a heavy twill, an almost canvas-like material. I would have liked to make it in some different colors perhaps; but one must work with the materials one has.
As I was making this, I thought about protecting our loved ones as well. So, I warded my baby! And then I warded my five-year old! The design on the infant’s shirt was my first attempt, and as thus, is not my favorite. I much prefer my second attempt and plan to make one for the baby to match his brother’s. A shirt for the hubby and myself are on the to-do list, as well.
Thank you, Mr. Brett and Ms. Cannon. You are both true artists.
Most sincerely,
JoAnna
Lots of stuff going on as I try to prepare for my first real vacation in years. Sometimes I struggle to come up with stuff to post on the blog, but not these days. I have about seven half-written entries, not to mention a growing pile of simply amazing entries in the Warding Contest, and lots of amazing art from European publishers.
Take Fabryka Slow (Word Factory) in Poland, for example. The Polish are the first international publishers to release a translated edition of The Desert Spear, and proud of it. Apparently there are others in Poland who share this pride, as well.
The first installment of Pustynna Wlócznia hits bookstores tomorrow, Friday June 18, and is approximately 600 pages of warded, demony goodness. The second half (another 600 pages) will be out in August.
The Polish translations are one of my favorite foreign editions, because unlike most publishers, they include amazing illustrations. Back in late 2008 I shared some of the illustrations from Malowany Czloweik (The Painted Man) on the Peephole, and all agreed they were fabulous. Pustynna Wlócznia is no different, with a whole new slate of illustrations by the great Dominik Broniek. Fabryka Slow has kindly given me permission to repost a dozen of them here. I have yet to receive my samples of the new book to check placement, but let’s see if I can figure it out anyway, without giving out any serious spoilers:
Obviously the Mimic & Mind Demons, plucked right from page 1 of the book. No spoilers there, just pure, pure awesomeness:
The smaller demon here is clearly a flame demon, as you can tell from its burning eyes. I’m guessing the other one is a field demon, common to Rizon and parts of Angiers. On open ground, there’s nothing on 4 legs faster than a field demon:
Flames demons + snow = fog:
Arlen, bad ass and haunted by the call of the Core:
This is clearly from the scene where One Arm… er, forget it. Spoiler. But awesome!
Jardir’s first taste of ward feedback with the Spear of Kaji:
Uber sexy Inevera… wait, “uber” is German. This is a Polish blog…
*Consults Google Translate*
Wspaniala Seksowna Inevera in her diaphanous robes. Dangerous. No wonder the Krasians tend to keep their women covered up. She could start a war like that.
Kickass picture of Twilight Dancer. A half-wild Angierian mustang with warded hooves might not be able to outrun a field demon, but it can trample the fuck out of one:
Mind Demon Snackie Snack:
Arlen & Jardir, flip sides of the same spear:
Not sure where these guys are busting into, but I’m glad the sun is out and I’m somewhere else:
Qasha throwing the alagai hora:
