An Elf archer shoots his way to his fallen comrade, and yet it seems he still arrives too late.
Battle Under the Trees (Elves & Orcs)
Battle Under the Trees (Elves & Orcs) detail,
Prints and shiny things available in my RedBubble shop here.
9×11 in acrylics, and gold and silver leaf, and a smattering of orc blood on primed canvas-board.
Original painting printed as a trading card for the set from Perna Studios’: ‘Spellcasters II, Enchanted Realms’.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 27, May, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/05/27/battle-under-the-trees/
Quick sketch costume tests for a work-in-progress Elf lordling.
Elf costume sketches
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 20, February, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/02/20/elf-costume-sketch/
The Gentleman With the Thistle-down Hair, from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Pencils and digital colouring, 21×29 cms
“I should take something of the lady’s to signify my claim upon her.”
What he takes is a finger. Though just a little one.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 28, January, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/01/28/to-signify-my-claim/
The (supposed) funeral of Arabella Strange, attended by her grieving husband, and (unseen) gloating fairy with Thistle-down hair.
The King’s raven watches, the trees spell out the truth, and the magic came from a single tear from a lady’s handkerchief.
From Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Graphite and acrylics on pastel paper 21×28 cms.
The Funeral of Arabella Strange
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 29, October, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/10/29/funeral-tree-over-moss-oak/
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 24, October, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/10/24/funeral-tree-over-moss-oak-work-in-progress/
Illustration (10×12″ acrylics on canvas-board) for Perna Studio’s trading card set: Halloween 2015. Detail images below (click the images see their stories.)
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Now available on REDBUBBLE here.
Some of the Demon Ball goodies on RedBubble
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 29, July, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/07/29/the-demons-ball/
John Uskglass, the Raven King with a crown of ivy leaves, for ‘ivy binds English magic’. The magician King raised by faeries, from Susanna Clarke’s book ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’.
Pencil and acrylics on old paper, 8×11.5″, finished digitally.
A detail of the whole (click to see full size) :
John Uskglass, the Raven King crowned in Ivy (detail)
And the entire thing.
(If only someone would hire me to illustrate her next book. PleaseOhPleaseOhPlease. )
John Uskglass, the Raven King crowned in Ivy
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Tuesday 7, July, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/07/07/john-uskglass-ivy/
The medieval magician and monarch, the ‘Raven King’ from Susanna Clarke’s ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’.
Pencil and acrylics on very old crunchy paper, 8×11.5″
Raven King, work-in-progress 2
Raven King work-in-progress 1
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 1, July, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/07/01/the-raven-king-ivy-work-in-progress/
Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair, in the Venetian Mirror.
The dangerous Fairy King from Susanna Clarke’s book: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. (An earlier, uncoloured, work-in-progress version here.)
Pencil, acrylics, and digital.
Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair in the Venetian Mirror
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 24, June, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/06/24/thistledown-hair-venetian-mirror/
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