ElfQuest Fan Art

Done as an art-trade for Rini, who owns Goldspice (right), and including Windsong (left, owned by Lova) at Rini's request. The story behind this is that the baby, Cinder, is the son of the River Twine tribe's chief, and his mother was killed in an accident when he was only about 4 months old. So the rest of the females in the tribe had to step up to nurse him (fortunately, the tribe has a healer to make this possible). Goldspice is his first-cousin, actually, and she's one of the volunteers. She's never had a child of her own, though, so this is her first experience nursing a baby. Windsong, though, has had two daughters relatively recently (in elf terms), so perhaps she's there to give pointers.

Pentel Pocket Brush-Pen inks, Copic marker coloring, some effects in Photoshop.  I definitely looked at examples Wendy has drawn of female elves nursing, and tried to avoid making this a flat-out copy of either of them, so I looked at photo-refs of women nursing as well.

Posted December 14, 2010, 10:47:29 PM
river twine, goldspice, windsong, cinder