ElfQuest Fan Art

I am on a school trip in London rn. It has been really cool  !

I read the descent of the High Ones as a narrative about the internal vision of the artist meeting reality.  Timmain and her crew's descent to the planet of Two Moons is the pain all of us have felt, as our numinous visions and nascent inner worlds collide with other people's perspectives and our ow…

This is the first Father Tree Press cover I did.  I did trace the original Father Tree Press Fire and Flight cover, but as you can see if you compare, I didn't stick with the original lines or colors in a number of places.
I had all the time in the world to work on this, and tweaked at it for years…

Trickster, also known as Limper, was a troll from the time before Voll took his group to establish Blue Mountain - before Ekuar, Mekda, and Osek were stolen, even before the glaciers came down from the mountains and drove trolls and elves southwards.  He was injured in a mining accident, and thus wa…

Bearclaw's reign and legacy are complicated.  He was lively and charismatic; he opened trade with the trolls, and his willingness to drink and gamble, brag and cheat, won them over as few other elves could have.  In his drunkenness, he neglected his tribe and his child, and struck his lifemate.  He…

A very old illo I just now got around to coloring. I can see the flaws, but hey, it's old. Windblaze is my character from my old roleplay games. Reds get killed by my scanner, but his hair is very vibrant with four different shades of red used. Anyway, I am NOT AFRAID of curls! And it took me a long…

Okay, I left out the background. Laziness! Rather inexcusable after all the posting with stunning backgrounds that are as richly and vibrantly detailed as the foregrounds. Shame on me! But here it is: soul brothers Desertmoon and Amberfox just letting loose and enjoying playing music and dancing in…

Figured I'd show what stuff looks like before I polish it up. A moment from 'In Memory Green' and the actual best line from 'How Can I Keep From Singing' - stuff that, tragically, did not make it into 'Once of Stars.'

Oh, Mantricker.  You're so difficult to draw!
I have to say, the comics and stories about Mantricker in Blood of Ten Chiefs clunked BADLY for me.  Two humans have more advanced technology/chemistry than the elves and the rest don't have a clue?  Mantricker, who supposedly lived a long time, grew up…

Goodtree's stories have a consistent theme of finding and being found.  From finding her gift saving the tribe that had come to find her, to finding her soul-name with her companions, to being found by humans at last thanks to her son's willful curiosity, beginning to end, the hidden is revealed.  A…

Tanner - still Oakroot then - began his time as chief with a vision.  Although he was several days' travel into the foothills, he saw his father die, and the tribe arguing over who should take the chief's lock, his uncle Suretrail or his older brother Fangslayer.  He saw both their reigns coming to…

Need I say more  .

(From bottom to top: Marl, Rainforest, Treefox)

This is for Amberfox, the more accurate version of my last drawing. (It was an easy fix. Somehow can’t upload it over the original so I’ll just double post.)

With love Marl
(Also added eye colours)

Pike, Rainforest (Amberfox), Treefox and Marl enjoying some dreamberrys before hitting the hay for the day (no pun intended).
The idea came from some comments on my Leetha sketch made by Amber- and Treefox.
Ahh, it was so much fun to draw this! Our sELFS having fun it’s such a joy! Although some…

Or more accurately, Taal Tales.  I dunno, the Half Hill Holt stories are fantastic but they almost seem more like Tanner's time than Freefoot's.  Except Tanner was a wee bab named Oakroot just before the tribe got flooded out of Half-Hill.  Hmm.
Anyway, I love the taal-stick game and the series of m…

Pretty sure I spent long enough on the shading of her tomatoes to justify putting this in the Horny art bucket. 

The round, fluffy Mountain Tamer to pair with Dove's long legginess.  Inarticulate but opinionated!

I love these long lean body types... especially when they're paired with a round and squishy one, like Maleen and Ruffel, or Venka and Tyleet.  I built off Dove and Windwhisper/Mountain Tamer using each other's soul names in one of their stories, and had them be lifemates, although they both also ha…

After the deaths of his mother and sister, Two-Spear began an escalating feud with the nearby humans. When they were caught in open battle in the foothills near the dens, Skyfire and her hunters provided cover with their bows and Mountain Tamer sealed the pass behind them.  However, nobody was happy…

Two-Spear, UGH.

Tiny Dewshine plans to be Tall and Buff when she grows up

Varus and Ardin are the result of some character ideas with my friends. Their Story is not very developed yet but they look really cool I think.
 

I found this statue with this dress thar reminded me of her. So here she is. 

Mountain Tamer's stories offer a wonderful view of the tribe during Preypacer's time as chief.  Central to her own drama, she gives us an outside view of the drama of inheritance played out between the chief-family and the last few 'pure' High Ones.

The tribe was lucky, they thought, to have the le…

Rellah was the cause of so much strife.  She was an unhappy lady - a miserable answer to the question 'how do we live here?' asked by the wrong person of the wrong person, and painfully jealous of the better answer her mother-figure found in the wolves.  Preypacer, Softfoot, and Moonwreath took too…

The mess of Two-Spear really starts here, with Preypacer's Recognition of his cousin.  Preypacer and his lifemate, Softfoot, were both trappers and small-prey hunters - excellent providers, but not charismatic chief material.  Moonwreath, his cousin, was charismatic, brash, talented, and lazy.  And,…

Rahnee eventually defined the Way of the Wolfriders. 
She inherited the tribe during a time of internal crisis.  The most wolf-like of Timmorn's children left with the pack of wolves who had accepted them, and did not return until many wolf-generations had passed. Elf-children of Timmorn's lineage…

A closer look at the ladies behind Timmorn in the previous cover.  Unfortunately this was before I started doing the background as a separate layer, so there's pieces of the foreground intruding.

Another old watercolor painting that I messed up and abandoned!  Remember, it's much, MUCH easier to fix anatomical errors in sketch stage.  A couple hours now will save you days of grief!

Another old watercolor painting that I messed up and abandoned!  Remember, always choose a paper sturdy enough to take the layers of paint you're putting on, and remember to stretch first!

One of those moments when no one gets Terra! She finds Rayek annoying as many of our Terraverse art shows, but still she hangs around with him. Here Rayek is annoying Cutter and Terra tells Skywise how she thinks Rayek is so annoying that she likes him! Terra and Rayek are friends... sort of!

I am so sorry.  I just couldn't un-see it.

I've been doing a ton of realistic studies lately and I needed to get away from it for a bit which ended up in semi-realism-esque territory hahh

Anyway, kind of a wip, I don't know if I'll finish it but the shadows could be deepened a fair bit and the lighting and expression pushed further. Critici…

I kinda uploaded this one for Sihreie/Nilla! After seeing those pictures about Beyond, it reminded me of my Zabian.

He's a very silly elf, a player, the clown of the holt. He's an entertainer and likes to make people laugh (especially himself), also plays several instruments. He can get up in the m…