Quick sketch costume tests for a work-in-progress Elf lordling.
Elf costume sketches
All posts in category Fantasy & Fairytale
Elf costume sketch
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 20, February, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/02/20/elf-costume-sketch/
‘To Signify My Claim’
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/
Funeral tree over Moss Oak
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/
Funeral tree over Moss Oak, work in progress
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 24, October, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/10/24/funeral-tree-over-moss-oak-work-in-progress/
The Demon’s Ball
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.)
The Demon’s Ball, Detail #5
The Demon’s Ball, Detail #2
The Demon’s Ball, Detail #1
The Demon’s Ball, Detail #4
The Demon’s Ball, Detail #3
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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 & ivy
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 Raven King & Ivy, work in progress
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/
Thistle-down Hair & the Venetian Mirror
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/
Classic Fairy Tales II
Sketch cards (2.5 x 3.5″) drawn for ‘Classic Fairy Tales II’ trading card set, from Perna Studios.
The ‘Wicked Fairy’, Sleeping Beauty
Billy Goats Gruff and the Troll
Captain Hook, Peter Pan
The Happy Prince
Cinderella’s Ugly Sisters
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 17, June, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/06/17/classic-fairy-tales-ii/
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