Luna’s Prose Ramblings

Today, Kaleb Nation revealed the entire cover art work for his upcoming novel Bran Hambric The Farfield Curse. It is great see to the whole drawing, since it lets us see all the previously shown art detail in context.

What I had forgotten and should have known is that on the cover, the title of Bran Hambric is written with a crescent moon as the dash in the letter a of Bran. This is a nice complement to the crescent moon necklace that Bran is holding in his hand. I have commented the day before yesterday that the necklace is important, but now that I see the whole image I wonder whether the necklace is Bran’s or someone else’s. Mind you… I haven’t read the first four chapters of the book yet that Kaleb has made available on his site and the answer might just be in there. But the way Bran is holding the necklace suggests that either it isn’t his and he just took it from someone or somewhere, or the necklace is his, but he is afraid to lose it when he wears it around his neck or have it in his pocket. Either way, the necklace is important !

Then the surroundings. By the discolouration of green and orange, I still think Bran is at a warehouse, with big metal doors behind him. Although it might also be an artists’ impression of a big glass shop front. It is a fairly narrow alley, though, rather than a street and that is not the most typical place for a shop front.

Other than that, the pose in which Bran is standing we can now clearly see that he is trying to get away from the person in the background. The way Bran is angled towards the shape suggests that Bran is trying to correct for overbalancing while in movement. So either Bran ran into that alleyway and tries to turn the other direction when he sees the shape further down or he ended in that position of adjustment by jumping down off of or out of the building facing us and starts to move away when he lands on the pavement. Either way, very dynamic pose of Bran’s !

I really like the cover art for Bran Hambric’s first forage into the world and am very impressed with Brandon Dorman’s style. And although I hope Kaleb will be a TwiCrit forever, I can’t wait to see whether my analysis of Bran’s art corresponds to what awaits us inside the cover.