[Optimus Prime]

I always envisioned Rake to be well muscled but not "bulky". I think of a basketball player type build, really tall and muscular but still maintaining a lean, athletic look.

[Cougar]

Optimus Prime;379117 said:

I always envisioned Rake to be well muscled but not "bulky". I think of a basketball player type build, really tall and muscular but still maintaining a lean, athletic look.

Although I don't approve of you fantasising about Rake I agree

[SonOfDarkness]

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Thats pretty good!

Im sure alot of you have seen it.

[q21]

Have seen it before.

Its still awesome.

[Optimus Prime]

Of all the people I've ever known associated w/ MBotF...you by far have the biggest man crush on Anomander.

[Sindriss]

Haven't seen it before, thanks for sharing mate.

[eekwibble]

It's a great pic SoD.

This is the best one I've ever seen though. It's by Slaine69 on deviantart.com
I'm sure he posts on here as well but I can't remember his nick.
Check out that link 'cause there's some real quality stuff in his gallery.
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[The Tyrant Lizard]

I believe that's Onrack's work.

[eekwibble]

That's the one! How could I forget that? No forum for a week and I'm all eek - wibble!!! :confused:

[zwitterion]

for some reason i had the same impression. maybe it's cuz they call it huge a lot. and it 'swallows light'. all very imposing.

[q21]

Doesn't GotM describe it as 6 and a half feet long.

Even if that's a GotMism... you can never escape that first impression.

[Jimmy]

1st pics is the better one. There's no mystery about the 2nd 1. Because the face doesn't fit my perceived vision of what Rake should look like.

[Silencer]

The first one is my desktop.
'Nuff said.

[Cougar]

yeah, 6 and a half feet is big, but it's not that big when you consider Rake is 7 foot tall.

I'm always puzzled why Rake is portrayed as so bulky when the Tiste Andii are consistently described as being tall and lithe.

[meili]

Nooo Rake is heavily muscled.

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The face remained blurred as always did; the Knight was naked, his skin jet black. From the hips up he was human, heavily muscled, holding aloft a black two-handed sword that trailed smoky, ethereal chains drifting off into the background's empty darkness. His lower body was draconian, its armoured scales black, paling to grey at the belly.

[Cougar]

That's a representation of him, not him, he doesn't have a Dragon arse in real life does he.

Second you can be muscular without being bulky, in loads of the pics he looks wide, his back is described as broad certainly but I doubt a date with Rake equals two tickets to the gun show.

[Viandaran]

in my rarely humble opinion, the second picture isn't even close to Rake nor Dragnipur.

that looks more like Elric and Stormbringer on the juice...

[murphy72]

Viandaran;378493 said:

in my rarely humble opinion, the second picture isn't even close to Rake nor Dragnipur.

that looks more like Elric and Stormbringer on the juice...

I think it looks more like Morrolan from the Steven Brust Vlad Taltos books.

[amphibian]

Cougar;378174 said:

yeah, 6 and a half feet is big, but it's not that big when you consider Rake is 7 foot tall.

I'm always puzzled why Rake is portrayed as so bulky when the Tiste Andii are consistently described as being tall and lithe.

It might be that Rake is rarely ever shown in a scene with someone human as a benchmark. It's hard to convey "bigness" without something readily identifiable to show scale, so I bet most artists take the easy out with the muscles.

An interesting way to tackle this might be to do a picture of Rake in the crowd at the masquerade ending GotM. I volunteer Onrack. Nothing like coming up with an idea and making somebody else do the grunt work.