the immanent grove

a fan's blog dedicated to ursula k. le guin's work

[kettricken]

for anyone who enjoys ursula k. le guin's earthsea novels and possibly also enjoys dungeon synth: I recommend my spotify playlist that's full of dungeon synth albums that are inspired by le guin's novels :-)

[mari-lu-ben]

Welcome to Earthsea!

You're Tenar, visiting her old friend Fan, who got his name after his biggest treasure—a beautiful fan with the painting of Havnor port and its people. But there is a secret other side to it that you've never seen:

"Dragons moved as the folds of the fan moved. Painted faint and fine on the yellowed silk, dragons of pale red, blue, green moved and grouped, as the figures on the other side were grouped, among clouds and mountain peaks."

"She did so, and saw the two sides, the two paintings, made one by the light flowing through the silk, so that the clouds and peaks were the towers of the city and the men and women were winged, and the dragons looked with human eyes."

[icedlesbianlatte]

oldish earthsea art

[abrillustrates]

Ged and Ioeth!!!

2/5 of my Wizard of Earthsea Black and White interior illustrations!

[illucescere]

Final part of my Earthsea project - book cover illustration and design working from the existing Penguin editions ✷

[wormrodeo]

[wigglybunfish]

arek and therem throat singing

[bloodyhellharry]

Goat-herding Duny sketches based on random pictures of mountainous goat-herding outfits in Kashmir and Iran

The characters don't have a very solid design in my mind yet, especially Ogion. He's giving Giancarlo Esposito in this.

[seibarosario]

"She did feel it. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free." - The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin

[abrillustrates]

Tombs of Atuan fan cover!!!! I’ve been wanting to do a cover for Atuan for months now… and I was finally able to! Yay!

Mockup below ☺️

[aghoulprince]

Sparrowhawk

[illucescere]

Earthsea spot illustrations ✷ more uni work

[juddraws]

Honestly my favourite scene in the earthsea series was when Ged named the true name of the shadow like hes actually got hyper aura points anyways this is how i imagine him to look like around before/ early tombs of atuan, gave him a braid cuz i just love drawing braids

[illucescere]

All of the full-page illustrations I made for the first four books of Earthsea in my final coursework project ✷

[saltshroud]

“I’m afraid that Argaven also believes you. But he does not trust you. In part because he no longer trusts me.”

[illucescere]

Ged and Yevaud - book illustration from my final coursework project!

[ashadowonsnow]

Two and one

A shadow on snow

The Left Hand of Darkness