ElfQuest Fan Art

For April Fool's:  Petalwing working the fashion runway   

This quick watercolor sketch is bonus art on the intro page for the 2014 pinup calendar.

It wasn't planned that way, but this is the painting that landed me the job with Warp.  I wanted to do a take-off on Raphael's School of Athens with Cutter as Aristotle and Skywise as Plato, it was just coincidence that it worked for the cover of In All But Blood.

I've never posted this anywher…

This drawing was for Micinjensue at the Scroll of Colors, who was facing the prospect of chemotherapy and wanted to see pictures of strong, happy, bald elves - especially Wavedancers.

This was my very first attempt at coloring a scanned sketch on PhotoShop.  Unfortunately, I only had a mouse.    …

This was one of two "splash pages" that were part of my Warp submission packet - I started but never finished inking this one.  This page was to be my proof that "I Can Draw Wolves" and had very difficult perspectives on the wolves that had to be worked out separately.

Note that I can't seem to dra…

Another old GAZERS submission.  Lighting inspired by a Bob Dylan album cover.    I also tried to capture more than one aspect of Skywise's character in one portrait without copying Elfmom.

Medium:  India ink washes on Bristol.

Another image I did for the old GAZERS fan site.

Medium: Watercolor and gouache on Bristol.
This was done with a limited palette.  I only used ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, Payne's grey (instead of black), and white.  Well, then I cheated and used yellow for Timmain's eyes and mixed it in the blu…

Let's start with the really old stuff first!    I still like inking and coloring this way, though, and the idea and image holds up pretty well.

Medium: India ink applied with a sable brush, colored with watercolor and gouache on bristol board.