“…Say Roiben of the Unseelie Court asks for your aid.”
Rath Roiben Rye by Soni Alcorn-Hender
Some bookish fanart (that was only meant to be a warm-up sketch, but I have no control of these things).
Roiben from ‘Tithe’, ‘Ironiside’, and the ‘Folk of the Air’ series of faerie stories by Holly Black
Acrylics, pastel, & pencil – 21×29 cm
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 30, January, 2021
https://bohemianweasel.com/2021/01/30/rath-roiben-rye/
Oberon & Puck
‘Oberon & Puck’
Basecard art for a trading card by Iconic Creations for the set ‘Iconic Literature’.
Acrylics, mica glitter, gold leaf, dubious love potions and fairy-level arrogance, on paper
A3 / 29cms x 42cms
Prints and art items available at Society6
Work in progress and detail images:
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 5, June, 2020
https://bohemianweasel.com/2020/06/05/oberon-puck/
John Uskglass, the Raven King
“Even the Raven King – who was not a fairy, but an Englishman –
had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting
men and women and taking them to live with him
in his castle in the Other Lands.”
The Raven King, with bird and book. Inspired by the character from exquisite Strange & Norrell by Susanna Clarke. (The audiobook is particularly good.)
Acrylics, pencil, liquid gold and silver, sterling silver leaf, and old English magic on paper 21×30 cms. Prints available here.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 13, November, 2017
https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/11/13/the-raven-king/
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/
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/
Work in progress of that most notorious of the fair folk: ‘The Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair’, from the gorgeous book by Susanna Clarke. (Also now a surprisingly splendid adaptation by the BBC)
Sketch of ‘The Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair’
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 11, June, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/06/11/strange-norrell-gentleman-with-the-thistle-down-hair-wip/
