ElfQuest Fan Art

Yeah, looks eerily real!
Good grasp on skin tones

Yay, she's got a name now too!
She's very lovely and let's say; bright eyed.

Did you use old fabric? I seem to detect some flowers there. Sometimes the fabric choice creates part of the characteristics.
Both Zara and Sonny were made with old fleece blankets!

In case you were wondering what I had been doing all those years I wasn't really drawing that much... One of the things that kept me busy was making puppets.

I started with an idea in 2018, and found the tutorials of Adam Kreutinger on YouTube to be very helpful in making it a reality. Along with the videos he also provided several patterns (some for free). My first two builds I posted lots of in-progress pictures on Instagram, and Adam's enthusiastic comments on those felt very encouraging and kept me going. He was really cheering people on to go take those puppet patterns and techniques and make them their own.

In August 2022 he announced he had brain cancer, and unfortunately at the end of February 2025 he passed away. It is so sad, because the world lost an awsome human being who has touched so many lives in such positive ways.
Making puppets and just playing with them, puppeteering, has gotten many people out of their shell, has made people who were silent talk, has helped people through depressions, has given people jobs, has made the world just a little bit more cheerful for many of us.

I don't know why I never posted pictures of the puppets I've made in my Deviantart gallery before. Perhaps I thought the pictures weren't that great. But seeing many people share their puppets and how Adam helped them, just feels like a little push to start sharing mine as well.
To celebrate the man who helped make them a reality. Thanks, Adam. ♥


Get to know more about Adam Kreutinger: www.puppetnerd.com
His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PuppetNerd
First time building? Make a snoof: www.snoofsoftheworld.com (free pattern)

Sonny Salmon (2019), info https://www.deviantart.com/afke11/art/Sonny-Salmon-1181185402


Zara Zombie (2019), info https://www.deviantart.com/afke11/art/Zara-Zombie-assistent-chef-1182722870


Flip (2020), info https://www.deviantart.com/afke11/art/Flip-1187279367


Morris (2023), info https://www.deviantart.com/afke11/art/Morris-hanging-out-1191282326


Slightly annoyed cake (2024), info https://www.deviantart.com/afke11/art/Slightly-annoyed-cake-1215180449


(I understand the Puppetnerd website isn't working properly at the moment. They're working on it so that all the patterns are available for people again. Please be patient, I'm sure it's back soon.)

I just came across this as I was rolling (I don't think I like my results quite yet, lol).

Personality Traits Table (roll 1D100 or 2D10)

I would like to point out that 1D100 is not the same as 2D10.
1D100 gives results from 1 to 100, 2D10 gives results 2 to 20.
If you write a different number than 1 before the D, that number of dice you roll need to be added up to each other.

For 1D100 typically 2x 1D10 dice are used, yes, but one is seen (and possibly even printed) as the double digit side and the other as the single. Before I found them printed with the extra 0, I used two different colours to determine which is the tens.

Well, you could also hint to her by using a braided element, as decoration of a cloak for example. So not her literal braid, but the shape of it in a silvery ribbon or something like that. And that way it's not a repeat either!

...That's a really tough one. Repeating the same thing over and over I do a lot, but usually for a certain period, and then I want something new. This is especially true for music for me, so I think that is the toughest.
My book would be Crusade in jeans by Thea Beckmann (Dutch writer, first read this book when I was 11 -- the movie adaptation is awful, don't watch it!), my movie would be Pride (a British movie from 2014, comedy/drama/queer history), and my TV series would be Star Trek Voyager (because it's... home, lol). I have lost count for all three how many times I've consumed these, so seem like mostly correct choices.
Now a song... even one album is a hard choice, honestly. Hmm, one song I have repeated many times and has a bonus of being almost 10 minutes long, is Venice bitch by Lana Del Rey. It's very chill too, and I can sing or hum to it. I guess this is it.

Q: Do/did you read other comic books besides Elfquest? Or are there other types of fandoms you have participated in?

Good to hear of your plans, Startear!

For me my bike is my main mode of transportation, not sporting equipment, haha.
Most accessible workout for me is walking (low injury risk), or dancing around in my kitchen while I'm cooking. So much waiting time involved with cooking... X)
I have been building up the walking though, sometimes walk to the shops too in stead of going by bike. But only if I don't need much, because carrying extra weight while walking is a whole other step.
The best part about this kind of workout is being outside more, so it's just as good for my (peace of) mind as it is the body.

Q: What is something you used to do as a kid, left for a while, and then came back to as an adult as being something you enjoyed or liked doing or see the benefit in?

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all of your hard work on the calendar. I currently feel too overwhelmed to comment on each indivual piece, but have viewed them all several times already, and keep going back. I just love it, and all the variety in there. ♥

That's a good thing though; I came across some info that if you're no longer critical of your work, your skills may have plateaued. As long as you're critical, you keep learning. Of course, there should be a healthy balance, not taking yourself down too much or be mean to yourself, but indeed also be pleased with what you did or that you did it at all!

Aww, I just watched The Craft last week. I have my fave movies on DVD.

Hmm, I have used lots of different art materials, and some moved me towards others for specific reasons.
1) I used to draw with ballpoint pens and crosshatch a lot, but it started to hurt my hands too much, so this moved me towards graphite pencil drawings.
2) Coloured pencils also needed too much pressure to my liking, so I looked for softer stuff and went with pastel pencils. But since it's difficult to properly save those (these drawings will keep leaving marks of powder, even after fixating, and scanning them is hell), I moved onto alcohol markers and I still prefer those; no pressure needed, easy to mix and use painterly or for blocking.
3) I started knitting, because I liked the idea of yarn-bombing and just knit together random colours and feel no pressure from my inner perfectionist.
4) When I'm working on a puppet or something like that, I feel relieved once I reach the stage where everything can only be stitched by hand, because I can just sit on the couch watching movies while I do that. It's a slow craft that I love, and all the previous stages require more brain power from me.

As you might have guessed I prefer analogue materials over digital. I'm very tactile with my work I guess, I need my fingerprints on there, they're often even part of the process (especially when I use graphite pencils). I need to be on my computer for so much already for things I have no control over, and even though employment is currently cut out of my day, I still feel even more the need to be in less contact with screens.
And I guess for the same reasons I still have my DVD's; I don't want to be forced to replace my materials just because technology changed or a company decided to discontinue something, or I need and update I can't afford or whatever, just to be able to make art. I always want to be able to use what I already have.

Okay, question: are you busy with any (art) project right now or soon, or perhaps passionate about working on something else?

Hmm, perhaps breathe some new air into this thread... I think we all were too intimidated by the last question, haha.

I would probably say something along the lines of what I wrote in the big thank you book that was made by fans a while back. Yes, I would mostly thank them. I don't think I really have any questions lingering on my mind..? The final quest felt like a nice big wrap up to me. Although with some things in it, it may feel like there was no room to pause and elaborate. So I guess my question would be if they felt rushed to get it done, get the whole rest of the story out, because you never know how long you have left.

New question: What do you do when you feel like you are too much in your head, how do you calm down, or get into a state of relaxation?

Use the reply button in stead of the quick reply. Then there's a button underneath the B for bold text, it says insert image. Paste the URL to the image between the code and it will show up in your message once posted. The image should be hosted on a site that allows hotlinking though.