ElfQuest Fan Art

Well, Suretrail's quite a few years older here than he was in Taal Tales!  Older, perhaps wiser...
I definitely referred to the costumes and some of the plot in 'Howl for Eldolil' but, well, modified them to suit my own aesthetic better - and for Suretrail, referred all the way back to 'Talon,' since I wasn't exactly thrilled with his red kilt in 'Howl.'
Fangslayer must've gotten his looks from their mother, since the blond/red hair and purple/brown eyes clearly came from Freefoot's side.  Now I want to draw Starflower...

Thanks!  Oh, I'm glad you noticed the leather he's working on shading to the same color as the cover - I wanted to show how his leathers let the Wolfriders blend with their surroundings!  That one's clearly for someone who spends a lot of time in mist and fog.
They take a while to make!  Sketching, inking, scanning, coloring... I probably spend at least six hours on each, in bits and pieces over a week or more.  Coloring is probably more like eight to ten, minimum.
I have completed everyone up to 'Fire and Flight'.  'Fire and Flight' was actually the first Father Tree Press cover I did: my old edition was falling apart, and I *truly embarrassed* wanted to make some tweaks to the anatomy and perspective.  And coloring.  For the whole book.  Mostly the parts with Redlance in them, because I think he's very very pretty, especially when he's hurt.
I don't know if it would be okay to post the remastered version I've done.  I think, despite the edits I've made, and the recoloring, it would be really rude to wave it around and go "look how much better I made this - because I had the time, technology, and energy to do so, without deadlines, with the benefit of a lot of life drawing and easily available reference..."
(On the other hand, I really want someone to appreciate the work I've done!)
Posting my what-if covers lets me show off at least a little of my obsession.  Once I finished all eleven Wolfrider chiefs and Timmain, I started sketching covers for stories of the trolls, and the sea elves, and the mountains and plains, as well as covers for the comics after Fire and Flight.  And I came up with stories to go within those covers. So far I've only completed the covers for a story I titled 'Trickster's Gems' and an alternate version of Rogue's Challenge (I could not possibly do a better job of the emotional freight and catharsis than the original battle between Cutter and Rayek.  I don't intend to. I just really want to see Khavi mop the floor with Rayek.)  I've got two that I'm inking currently, five that are ready for refinement and inks when I can get to them, and seven that need to go back for heavy revisions.
For comics, I've got 48 pages of Fire and Flight, although some of them need final coloring and lettering.  I've got a twelve-page version of 'By Any Other Name' that just needs a few final tweaks because back when I started I was drawing the elves with about half as much head as they needed.  I have twelve pages out of a thirty-page version of 'Moonshade' inked, partway colored and lettered.  That story resonated with me deeply, and I feel like the original artist, Lia Hernandez, caught something that my work, for all its polish, is missing.  I have 28 pages of 'Once of Stars', my take on 'How Can I Keep From Singing?', but it's undergoing a lot of edits because Clip Studio updated in the middle of my work on it and RESIZED ITS DEFAULTS so half the pages were A5 and half were B5  *sob* and also I'm not sure how to wrap it up.  Two more pages!  Come on, brain!  Tell me what goes next!
Then as far as writing goes I've got scripts for ... Welcome to the World/Timmain: Once of Stars, The Bitter Change.  The Long Walk/Timmorn: The Long Walk, Loss and Change, The She-Wolf's Name.  The Way of Names/Rahnee: The Summer Itch (a Name for Cat), More than Two, The Raven-friend (a Name for Ice), Less than Half, A Chief's Name (A Name for Sling.) Mountain's Cry/Preypacer: Cave Shadows, Mountain Tamer, Mountain Spring, Cavern Light, Mountain Fall.
and outlines/notes for ... The Wolf of the Elf/Two-Spear: Path of Spears, My Deepest Self, Shield of Arrows. Strangers' Ways/Skyfire: Prairie Fire (Familiar Faces), Direct Descent (Parting Ways), Family and Friends. Half-Hill Holt (River Running)/Freefoot: Tooth Swamp, Tailfeathers, Taal Tales, The Snail's Gift, The River, Feverfang. Hidden/Tanner: The Golden Grove, Finder (Hue and Cry? A Red Mad Mind?), In Pursuit of Purple, The Hide, something about other Wolfriders' creative pursuits and the increase of magic and song in the Holt, Song of the Storm.  Found/Goodtree: (subject to revision) Root, Branches, Berries, Leaves, Flowers, Thorns.  Mantricker: Child of Man, The Hundred-Year Cattle, A Bear in the Woods, Eye Meets Eye, seeds for other legends, growing tension with human communities... Dreamberry Wine/Bearclaw: trolls and humans stuff, Madcoil.
Outline or partial script: Elsewhere and Otherwise: (Sun) Child of Dry Rock, Carrier of Breaking Burdens, Shade and Sweet Water, Bleat of Destiny.  (Wave): Full Circle, Open Water, Rivermeet, The Tide Together, The Lost Sons, Theft, Redfin, A Hollow Egg.  Stone: Trickster's Gems, The Secret True History of the Ones Who Really Matter.
I also have an encyclopedia I made up of the Sun Villagers at the time of Fire and Flight, based on the background characters of the village, and of the Wolfriders and Wavedancers stretching back to the High Ones.
I.  I'm sorry.   I REALLY nerded out there.  Suffice to say, I have a rather alarming amount of Elfquest fan-material, most of it stuck at 80% finished.

YAY!  Yes, I'd like to see more of your work, and learn about your characters and holts!