Perdidio Street Station, China Miéville

More Fanart Friday! Have some gorgeous concept art of China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" by Justin Oaksford, visit him here on tumblr or at justinoaksford.deviantart.com/ for more of his art!

My very good friend commissioned this piece as a birthday present for his amazing girlfriend. She’s a big fan of the book “Perdido Street Station” and rightly so because it’s a puh-ritty epic read.  The picture is a portrait of Yagharek, one of the book’s main characters.  I think it turned out decently well and she seemed to like it so a great success all around! Happy Birthday Hannah!!:D

The garuda are nomadic humanoid birds of prey. Most hail from the Cymek desert, where they live in tribes. They are hunters with a fierce sense of individualism. They resemble winged humans with avian heads and feet; their society is completely communist, with individual possessions seen as reducing the individual's freedom. A small ghetto of garuda live in New Crobuzon, and a few are described as living near the Cacotopic Stain in Iron Council. Garudan law is based around the principle of freedom of choice; all their crimes are forms of "choice-theft", denying another being the right to choose their own fate. Their name is derived from the Garuda of Hindu mythology.

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