Tori Amos - Winter

A Creature of  Winter, presumably an elf.

Oh, what a little cliché this picture number four of Project Inspiration is. Anyhow, I decided to draw a cliché picture because Winter, as a song, brought this image to me. I have actually wanted to make a cosplay like this for ages.

I used ink and coloured pencil in this picture. The trees are made with ink and a new thing for me in this picture was that I used more than just black when drawing the outlines of the trees. As you can see, the farthest trees are made by using a light grey where as the tree in the front is made with black.

I hope someone else will be inspired by this song aswell.

What to draw next, you decide. Please, comment your recommendations.

Ri’dzaeln Wehlagharlyn

Yet again, another little pause has passed and I have drawn yet another charachter of mine. Ri’dzaeln Wehlagharlyn is my first Dungeons and Dragons charachter. Some say one should always start role playing with D'n'D but I'm a horrible player and I didn't. It's a fun rpg nevertheless. Ri'dzaeln is a drow, a dark elf for those who don't know what a drow is, who has left the drow society and become a druid. And yeah, drows tend to have long names with a lot of consonants. Those, who know anything about drows, know that it is extremely weird for a drow to leave his or her society. And no, this charachter actually wasn't inspired by Drizzt Do'Urden, perhaps the most famous drow of all time. She just happened to got caught by humans and then she became an outcast, even though she had a drow fiancé.

In the picture she is just leaning against an old tree and thinking what on earth was she doing with a halfling, an eldar, an elf, a human, and a thiefling in a forest on an epic quest (halflings are like hobbits, eldars are elfs who can teleport, and thieflings are kind of half demons). In few seconds from the moment in this picture she reveals to the others that she is a drow. Drows aren't really accepted in the world on the ground where as under ground they have a very high stand in the hierarchy of different races. However, the others were surprisingly okay with her race.

Ri'dzaeln - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

I used coloured pencils, ink, and pencil with Ri'dzaeln, but I left the background black and white just to create contrast.

Merenwen Telrúnya

Merenwen - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

Merenwen is an elf woman, who is a typical redhead. She has fire in her heart and she totally shows it. She actually wasn't an original charachter in the role play she is from, but the game master was kind enough to include her in his game. Merenwen used to have a very long hair but she cut it in order to look a bit different, because she and the rest of the group were pronounced outlaws. This scene is from quite the end of the game campaign, when she discovered she could not live without Elwin, the blonde elf in the picture (who also happened to be a general of the army). At first she could not stand him because he tried to hit on her way too much. In the end, however, they end up getting married and having two children.

I tried to use some bolder colours in this one but I guess I still have a long way to go before I have truly mastered the use of colour.