The Not-So-Usual Suspects...

Yesterday while reading the techniques section in my new favorite book (The Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible, hereon known as TFAFDB) I had an idea while looking at page 44 and 45 on relative proportions of fantasty characters, it reminded me of a police lineup...so here are the suspects, a female drow Elf, a dourhand dwarf and a dark wizard....I don't even want to imagine what the crime was ::shudders::

I took a break from the water colors and used my Faber-Castel artist pens (less pretentiously known as markers).  I'm reasonably happy with the outcome, but I'm most pleased with the dwarf...I'm apparently better at drawing people shorter than I am....which considerable limits things  seeing as I'm 5'3", so I will work on taller beings some more.

"E" is for Elf...

For E I decided I needed to do elves, even though an elf is more of a mythological being than a beast.  According to Wikipedia: "The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine or semi-divine beings (wights, vættir) endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind."  
   Again I needed to use a photograph of myself as reference so I would have no copyright issues.  Earlier my lovely sister Cris saw the drawing and said "Oh I love how you gave it Sindarin style clothes and hair, but since the face is yours it has a nice blend between Sindarin and Keebler elf." Ahh, sisters...see if you agree with her: