ElfQuest Fan Art

Happy 46th birthday, Elfquest!
I didn't quite make it in time, but close. So, here's the next entry in my portrait series, Rayek. What a complex character without whom Elfquest would not be what it is. His journey from being rather self-centered, arrogant and needing the confirmation of his worth from others to becoming the caring, often selfless officially certified hero that he is now. And his journey is not over! Will we see it's conclusion one day? Again, I tried to incorporate all the elements that shaped Rayek on his life's journey in this portrait.
Next will be the sketch for the calendar entry!

This took a long time to make and so many reworks, it's not even funny. I am pretty happy with the result, even though I do feel the single parts look better than the complete picture. I am pretty proud of the eyes and put a looooot of details into them, so I recommend to have a look at them in full size. 
I hope this will really become a series and I'm going to start the next one soon.

Another Emoji drawing: pretty Moonmirror
She turned out quite strange and alien in a good way I think.

Drawn with Czarine’s wonderful AnonDraw



https://www.anondraw.com/collab#private_j6meh,-68,-59

So, here is Clearbrook, being basically a blank canvas. If anyone wants to give her any kind of coloring and/or outfit, feel free to go ahead.

I thought I’d post Redlance’s and Nightfalls’ wolves from my calendar submission, as they turned out quite decent and were mostly covered by their elf friends.

  I did something remotely decent in AnonDraw, our dear Crescent.

As I love Frozen's costume designs, I felt inspired to design a sin version of Elsa's ice dress for Ahdri in the palace. I had a sparkly blast drawing this! Wheeee!

*edit: I meant to write "sun version " not "sin version". Great autocorrect fail, so I am leaving it like that.

So I loved Yavia’s idea of characters being represented by Emojis, so I  joined Czarine and Berit in Anondraw and made the crappiest Dewshine ever. 

I thought I posted this long ago. This is my contribution to the fanart book gifted to Wendy and Richard at the end of the Final Quest.
This is super personal, so I don't have much to add to the contents. Elfquest has changed my life to the better.

Ah, I wanted to add at leat something, so I decided to upload my final version of Kaslen after all. I am quite happy how she turned out. Loved to draw her robe and braids.

  I did it! I finished this picture! Seriously, I've been carrying this idea around for at least three years now! I was riding my bicycle and thinking of the EQ characters I almost never drew before and noticed I almost never drew Moonshade. Immideately, I got this idea of a more or less monochrome picture with all kinds of violet shades.
Even this sketch I drew as a base to this picture is more than 1 1/2 years old!
Phew!

Details

As it really is easier for me to draw her sad than happy, I thought this might be a scene from Hidden Years, when Strongbow was out to find Lashpaw. So here's Moonshade staring into the thunderstorm, being worried about her lifemate being out there, having pretty raindrops clung to those gorgeous thick eyelashes, just generally looking pretty while being worried. 

My next picture will be 100% traditional coloring. I miss feeling pencils and paper in my hand!

After finishing the Flood and Flower pic, I slept very little and tackled Shushen.   After looking at some pics of him by Blair, I had the definite urge to make him look older than nine and much more manly, so I buffed him up quite a bit.
Because I thought of Berit's request for more wolves, I also put that Jackwolf in, and man, I think it absolutely steals Shushen the show.  

This Pool was created specially for the grid art. I not also wanted to try again to color something digitally, I also wanted to try out a flatter 2D coloring. Man, he really looks nothing like Alies's Pool, though... Modeled him more after my own first pic of Pool.
He is such cutie!

Oh no! I just noticed that he has five fingers!  

I finally did it! I successfully colored something with GIMP! I still have to get used to a lot, but finally I see some light at the end of the tunnel. I know that there is still so much to improve and that the background is rather "noisy". But all in all I'm not unhappy how it turned out. Critique is welcomed, but please bear in mind that I'm definitely still learning.  

Edit: seeing how the rest of my stuff looks on this monitor, I'm wondering whether the colors will be OK.

Again, this was a request from the Scroll. First, it was to be only Kahvi, Vaya and Vaska, but due to an additional request, I put in Venka at the last minute.   I imagined Kahvi telling her children about her life, her adventures and what ever. I must admit that I'm still proud of this picture even though there's so much wrong with it. I like the atmosphere and the expressions of the characters. Enough self-praise. I hope you enjoy.