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[elfeneyes]

On the Scrolls of Colors EQ Dolls Thread http://www.elfquest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 you'll see that me, Jeedai, Kat Combs, Nightsea and Embala were working together to collect all our OWD work into a college.  The purpose was to pass this onto Josef S., the artist of the OWD comics, who was going to post this on the Black Mermaid blog after I shared with him our work.  After many weeks this is the result:

"As you all know we've been busy preparing the first issue of Elf-Fin: Hyfus & Tilaweed for publication, which uses some of the supporting characters (namely the eponymous heroes Hyfus and Tilaweed) who first appeared in ElfQuest: WaveDancers (known as the original WaveDancers – OWD). It's great to see that so many years after their original publication that an online group is still actively interested in these characters today."


"I (Jozef) have always enjoyed viewing fan art of characters I've created/designed (provided that the new art pieces are correctly copyright attributed to either Black Mermaid Productions™ or to myself as the original artist), so when I discovered the new Icon Dolls of the OWD, I was thrilled and quite chuffed."


"The OWD Dolls really capture the essence of each characters design so clearly and correctly you instantly know who each character is. It's also fun seeing the various takes on the one character, as there are several artists that have banded together to explore our OWD characters in this way."


"Once Elf~Fin is released, the characters that cross over from the OWD will have an entirely new base identity in a new world with a new story and lots of new characters to surround them, so it'll be great to see them in that light. Until then, seeing the OWD character honored with such loving and respectful interest is heartening and a great motivator to Julie and myself to bring the characters to publication again (in Elf-Fin) for you all to enjoy."


"Here is the direct link to the collage of the OWD Dolls: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/astevens85/Elfquest/Elf-finDollCollage.png

The artists involved have posted their logos by their works. The names and logos are together as follows (Nightsea and Embala are unsigned):
"elfeneyes" = A.S.
"Jeedai" = CMT
"Kat Combs" = LJ
WaveDancer/Elf-fin Characters © and ™ Black Mermaid Productions, 1993-2009. All Rights Reserved.

Reposted with permission *Elf-Fin. Original article at http://blackmermaidproductions.blogspot.com/2009/04/elffin-avatar-fan-art.html
The 2nd article, which features closeups, is http://blackmermaidproductions.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-on-elffin-owd-dolls.html

THIS *points up* is the project I've been working on with several EQ dollers/friends to complete and news I've been waiting to share with you. I thank Josef and Julie! for their kind words and for deeming our hard work and love worthy enough to deserve their attention and grace the Black Mermaid Blog.

I hope everyone checks out the offical blog piece!

[Foxeye]

Congratulations on the recognition for all the work you guys have done!