…so as usual what was supposed to be a warm up speed painting exercise took off and ran away from me and decided to be a full illustration. the idea for this is inspired by the lush and evocative writing of the lovely @nocturnememory
i’ll be posting the full piece when i’ve spent some more time going over the whole thing 🐍🐚
– in 2018 between commissioned art and projects i’m going to finally start on a series i’ve been wanting to create for a while now: a dark fairytales set of drawings. starting with my version of Beauty and the Beast.
next up in january will be my take on the tale of Aschenputtel (and her weeping tree)
“An offer to the sea" 2010, by me (Marurenai).
My OC Elf Tor-AnaEl while he’s just made his precious offer to the Sea, in a land on the border between the Elven world and our.
The background took me a lot of time (days only to do the perspective line-art…). You can see a step-by-step WIP of this painting in my previous post.
Used Photoshop CS3, Wacom Bamboo tablet (it strated with pencil on paper…) .
Commission for a client of my interpretation of Hades and Persephone. The client gave me free reign on this piece for the most part. The main requirement was for Persephone to be male and Hades to be female. 🙂
Monsters and Villains 