ElfQuest Fan Art

Awww! This is just so awww! Our beloved Baker! I love it! Little Leetah and young Rayek really steal my heart. I love how she's noticing but playing along. All the colors look so friendly and inviting and discovering all the details is so much fun. I'm absolutely smitten with that little mouse! I want to enter that picture and join the baking and mischief. Love your interpretation of the theme!

For me, baby Leetah steals the show. So ridiculously cute! It seems Rayek thinks he is getting one over on the baker, but her calm, friendly expression says it all. I think you did a fantastic job on her, she's absolutely lovely! And now I want to know more about her!  You did such an amazing job with the background and the framing of the illo, one cannot help but get lost in the details, seeing something new each time. The mouse is a truly inspired addition, but where there's grain, there will be rodents. Somehow, I think the baker knows its presence and probably allows it to hang around as a sort of animal friend. This is perfectly placed in the calendar after the stark, strong, dark atmosphere of Two Edge at the forge, this calm, serene almost joyful scene that you can't help but smile at. And of course, Rayek had to sneak his way into the scene, right? Such a camera hog. Look forward to seeing more of your art this year, JaRF!

Ahhhh adorable! I love the sneaky pose, Rayek must still be in his young rascal phase The border you created with the plants is really good, I love framing illustrations like that. As others have mentioned, the detail in the background is also fabulous!
And! Babies/children are so hard to draw, their proportions are so different! You did very well.

Yes, he is in this rascal-phase of life. Well, if he ever really was (having to mature early; but maybe it also never really left him). I tend to overcrowd pictures often, I should try to have a more focused image one day.

You're right, Yavia, there is some detail to find, such as the no-AI-bottle (or his disabled arm, the image is supposed to be at that time).
It is good to read that the image brought some joy to the world.

Thank you! It's just a little sad the the colors came out dull and shifted in the printed version. I simply had to include the "AI-poison" as a little easter-egg, as there is so much misuse of computing capacity these days. Respectless skimming of all the real art on the net and then spamming the world with imagery generated by computers, and (often literally) selling this to people as "art".