ElfQuest Fan Art

So this is my second entry to this challenge. I had forgotten that I'd done something like this for my own pleasure in 2006, the first version is from 1992, I think. This is Verina, the healer of a tribe of jungle elves. I still like the concept. Their clothes were so colorful because they used the butterflies as their source of inspiration. Furthermore, I like the design of her outfit and she has short hair! That is rather unusual for me and I like how it came out. The old version was a rather sloppy pic to establish her outfit and colors, but still, I think the new version does show quite a change.

Harmony then and now.  I had not drawn, anything, EQ in over a decade.  I put down my pencils and took up a long hard road of sculpting for over a decade.  I sure helped me a lot on figuring out how things "connected".

So very weird too see how I had begun, in 2001, to draw the heads so much smaller.  Now 13 years later I hope I have returned to a more stylized look for ElfQuest.

Oh;  and that is RUNESINGER in the background, and her wolf is trying to harmonize- much to Harmony's delight-  with the song she is gifting to the stars.

Here's another update from the gang of elves I dreamed up.
This is Fyrefox. He's a peer to Midnight, Cricket, moonlight and Nighthawk. He's known as Nighthawk's 'heart-brother', best of friends, in our terms. Fyrefox is second eldest of the youngsters, following after Moonlight. He has a twin sister named Foxyfire. He's level headed and very sweet. He reminds me of Redlance in looks and personality. Only he is an excellant archer and tracker.

I thought an comparison to then and now would be fun.

I was inspired by Mirror's painting to re-do this old Leetah-picture. The old picture certainly wasn't my first try of an elf either, but at least my very first experience with digital colouring. Hm, I find the old one so hideous

Lord, it took sooo long to get her nose acceptable. Don't look at it too closely (or her lips). If I would uploud the event-file, it would be 10 min, for sure.

The old picture was done in Photoshop (CS4 or 5, I think) and the newer one in OpenCanvas5

Definitely not my first EQ -drawing - but that is my first digital EQ portrait.

The portrait on the right is part of a full-body pic of Tyleet I'm working on. It suddenly dawned on me that the face kind of resembles the old 2007- portrait, so I did some cropping, and...ta-daaa.

Gah, I remember being so happy with that thing in 2007.  

Inspired by my Windstill study and following rediscovery of her old portrait I decided to give Blackhare a makeover as well.

2006 versus 2011

I know there's something wrong with the new versions eyes, I'm still working on that!

Blackhare, Thunderwater Holt ancestor, belongs to ReyesLord.

A couple of days ago I was going through my old stuff and found my very first EQ sketch. Leetah on the left was made around 1990-1991, when I was 8 years old or so. Leetah on the right is actually a fairly recent sketch that I did when I was trying to practice my elf drawing skills after a long pause (obviously based on the wonderful character sheet by Wendy). Since I had the sketch just lying there, I decided to color it and upload it here I think it turned out ok, but the funny thing is that I was probably much happier when I finished that very first drawing (strange how age makes me question my work so much )...

This is the oldest ElfQuest type micro I could find. Somewhere I do have the original drawing of this character, but I couldn't find it when I looked. The outfit has changed some over the years, but the basic girl is the same. Hope this fits with the contest/challenge.

This is the oldest piece of mine that I was able to find in my folders.  I'm not sure what her expression was supposed to be, but she looks rather horrified by the flower in the original. Or stoned...? Or maybe someone has just sent something tragic to her.  

And what the heck was with the butt-cloth?  

In any case, the revamp sorta went beyond the bounds of the original, but sometimes a picture just has a mind of it's own, so I didn't try to restrain it once it wandered off the path.  

Oh, and I know I left out the birds.    

So, this is not my earliest EQ piece, but... perhaps I will get to doing that in time.  Doing this makeover for my RTH char recently made me realize that it's closer in colors and some details to the first thing I designed for him back when I adopted him, a little less than 4 years ago.  (I like the date symmetry on the two pieces. ) When I sat down to do the design on the left, I hadn't tried to draw an EQ elf in nearly 20 years -- and you can totally tell.    Good lord.  The next piece I would do of him, in winter clothes, I was happier with.  If I could make one piece disappear from his RTH gallery, it would probably be this one, ugh.  Almost 4 years and about 226 elves' worth of practice later, and I feel a little more comfortable with the result.  Next: perhaps I really will dig out something from 1987 and give that a try!  

Whee, I finally did it. I decided to take the first elf I ever designed myself. This must have been around 1987 when I was about 10 years old. At that time I didn't know about any Wavedancers (did they even exist back then?), I just figured it would be a lovely idea to have mer-elves. So I made my own tribe of mer-elves in which only the women had fish tails and the men had webbed feet and hands. I really don't remember the reason... Gee, I have no idea what that thing around her neck is, neither what that weird outfit is supposed to be... Also that gemstone? Also, I erased her face so many times that it's hardly visible and the paper is practically not existing at that spot anymore.Anyway, I'm not that happy with the new version either. I'd like to pretend that it's because I'm out of practice. But still an improvement, I think. Sorry for the bad scan quality, btw.

This is actually my 1st drawing of my 1st character for my 1st Elfquest holt (her name translates as Dreameye).

I don't have the original anymore 'cause I send it to the holtleader; it was a snailmail based holt, we'd get newsletters every once in a while. I didn't even have an email addy yet (and I had that before I had internet at home, haha!).
So I only had this copy of it that I colored to decide on her clothes, but I rescanned it in grayscale just now 'cause that's what it originally was.

I still quite like it, concidering... how boring it looks and how I sucked at proportions. So I redid it in a way I would do it now, also made her hair poofier, I like that. Her face was tough 'cause I always made sure all my elves had very distinctive facial features, but hers are just so off I couldn't do them anymore like that.

Huntress Skyfire...one of my first dolls and I love her redo

here's my entrie !
The first one, you maybe remember, was drawn in 2008, and the second one in 2009


When I drew it in first, I didn't want to show something particular, the pose cam of itself. But now, I wanted to do something that would have sence. I then imagined a winnowill, discovering her powers of destruction, and with -maybe- some ... regrets ?

first one made by pencils, and the otherone by watercolor (as usual   )
hopee you like

Not my earliest EQ drawing but it's pretty close - I really don't know what I was trying to do with that pose, I suppose I was trying to make it sexy so that's what I did this time around

Note that this is a very quick sketch, only took my 30 minutes or so.