ElfQuest Fan Art

I'm not giving away my age *cough* but I know it's been over 10 years since I was introduced to EQ.  I wish I could remember...it might be close to 20 years    My mom actually found the first issue and picked it up because she liked the design of Winnowill and it all progressed from there.  My sister basically claimed the fandom after that, but had me draw fanart from the beginning and I got hooked on the artwork. 

I'm stuck sick at home so decided to share some more old artwork while I work on new.  Yes, more linework 

Achika from Tenchi Muyo!



Occasionally I do attempt to draw guys as well XD  Hiro from Gundam Wing



Most of the time I do spend time doing fanart.  I have a decent amount in original pieces I just have to dig it up.

I don't normally post a lot on forums and therefore I don't think I really have any say in a lot of this.  I also didn't vote either way as there are many pros and cons for all choices.  I will accept whatever decision is made. 

I used to frequent forums a lot, but it was due to the many arguments that made me more of a lurker.  Too many people had too many opinions of people.  It was very HS and I left HS drama behind me (or atleast I can hope) long ago.  I did often read rant sections and some of the arguments or points that came out were very enlightening, but a lot of people did take offense to things being said.  There are a lot of sensitive topics that people feel very personal about and therefore caused a lot of problems.  Once it turned ugly I would often not look at it again.

I am very open minded on a lot of things, but there are several topics that I feel strongly about be it for or against them and I would often boil once reading these topics and how people felt.  I would turn away if it came to that.  Once or twice when I would reply people were surprised by how I reacted/felt/opinionated I was and they do look at you differently afterwards. 

I feel bad it has come to this here and I hope we will all grow from it and still remain a big fanart family in the end.  We're all human.  We're not perfect.  That's just how we are to accept it 

I'm finally inking my first drawing!  I'm truly happy and yet nervous.  I've been experimenting colouring via my PS7 thanks to some YT videos and instructions from Tevokkia, but I'm not sure that is how I will go with this.  I'll see which I like better =D 

So as there has been no new art for a year that tells you how old some of these pieces are.  And as I've mentioned before I had turned to a lot of b/w line work so you'll see a lot of that here.  I've been wanting to be a mangaka for awhile, but most of my stuff is what my sister likes to call "promotional" work as I don't often have much luck repeating characters over and over as you would see.  Oh well...

Anyhoo on to the art.  Anime style.

From RGVeda.  Ashura and Yasha.  It was done as a Christmas exchange.



From xxxHolic.  Amewarashi.  This is one of the drawings I did for the fanbook.



Also from xxxHolic.  Maru and Moro.  Another drawing for the fanbook.



And I'll dig up more later XD  Thank you for looking!

oh...and I drew the girl in my avatar as well...it's kinda supposed to be me XD

@ Tevokkia - I would love any help I can get!  Before I turned completely to b/w inks by hand I basically would draw a picture, outline it in ink and colour it with coloured pencils.  Unfortunately coloured pencils don't scan very well and I felt as if my pictures did not show the quality of seeing it in person, so turned to the b/w.  I attempted twice with markers and once very amateurishly used my Adobe PS7 to colour in a cartoony character, but that's as far as I have gotten.  My family bought me a tablet (have to check which kind), but my super busy schedule keeps me from spending hours practicing much to my dismay  

@ Windrider - Thank you for the link!  I will read it more thoroughly and try to experiment.  My artist style is very, very basic compared to what I've been reading and seeing *^_^*;;  I have painted on canvas, but only scenic and as my goal the past couple years has been to be a mangaka I haven't spent a lot of time on colour; mostly focusing on lines.  When I do colour it is very close to cartoon/animation variety.  I feel so...amateur here...

On a good note I bought new pens to do my outlines and am soooo happy!  I had my last set stolen and have had to "make due" with ones that made my lines too thick (well atleast for me) so I am ready to attack my work again!  I think I will spend the time drawing all my pieces and then freak over the colouring once I am finished *lol* 

So much inspiration!  I love the excitement everyone is getting into for this. 

So far I only have Longfin's closeup and part of her action shot.  I have the idea of the rest of the picture it's just making sure it turns out the way I want it to XD  Also I forgot I have to do these in full colour.  I've done b/w's for so long I think this will be the most challenging part haha

Okay back to drawing... 

I'm really excited!  I'm kinda glad the artists names were posted because now if we need any help finding pictures we can ask without trying to be all sneaky about it XD  I am overwhelmed by the number of people participating and it's awesome =)

As for my pictures...I'm working on one and only have the close up mostly done.  I'm trying to think of the character and also be original when it comes to all of them.  I'm probably over thinking XD

I also chose no preference.  In one way it ruins a kind of element of surprise, but if it keeps it better organized for everyone and people are more comfortable with names attached than an anonymous "taken" so be it.  I'm excited to be drawing and I imagine everyone is =D 

Hello everyone!  It's been so long since I've been around and I definitely miss EQ!  I'm going to try to return more often and I also submitted a PM to join in the calendar fun ^_^  I intend to force myself to draw no matter what!

@Treefox - unfortunately I've had to avoid cons due to financial stress.  Some day...

I'm a bit confused on how to make various galleries under your gallery.  I *think* I did it correctly, but then again I'm guessing you can't move a piece of art from one to the other?  And you can't delete a gallery you have? 

I can never figure out the simple things ^^;;;

Edit - also do you have to make icon size pics so your gallery has those? 

Intro time!

First I'm super happy that EQfanart has returned in one form or another and thank you for all the effort of making it happen =D  When I first got into the fandom there was literally no one who shared my interest except for family (and I didn't think about how the internet had clubs/fandoms/etc at the time) so when I discovered the first EQFA I was happyhappy!  I'm horrible at keeping up with forums and stuff though so my activity is fairly low.  I apologize!  But I hope to be able to keep up a bit atleast ^^;;;

In all things fandom related I'm known as Branchscamper (but you'll see Yukiko here and there!) and it was the artwork that drew me in to EQ.  I just began drawing this art again after a few years break, but I'm also slow on drawing so once again I will try my hardest! 

And...I think that's about it for now?  XD