At Long Last, Pictures Of Fret And Larkspur In Colour, So You Can All Actually See A Major Part Of The

At long last, pictures of Fret and Larkspur in colour, so you can all actually see a major part of the character designs I never, ever show! Also, I’ve finally worked out how to get muted colours out of my coloured pencils, it’s only taken 18 years... Sympathy with their environment makes elves of their type rapidly change appearance to match the plants and light where they live. Fret lives in a birch grove and therefore resembles a birch tree, Larkspur once lived in a beech forest and looked very different, but now she lives in a fetid marsh and appears sodden and mud-flecked, with hair like reeds. Fret had spent a century believing she had burned to death with her forest, and didn’t recognise her at first.

Inktober 2018 : Day 7 - ink and water Spider is a powerful telepath, but his telekinesis is weak and he’d like to develop it, so he spends a lot of time trying to bend spoons. Sometimes he can do it and sometimes he can’t. I didn’t draw him in his usual woolly jumper because I had a sudden desire to show you all that he’s kind of hairy.

Apparently I hadn't got all the eyes out of my system, so here are four more. These are three aliens from a story I don't think I've ever shared before, so I suppose this can be their first introduction! All of them are members of a royal court in the far future, far away from Earth. Their names and species are in the captions, if you want some very minimal information about them. Maybe I’ll post full portraits some other time?

Have some crows! The one on the left was part of a birthday card, the one on the right was... well I traced the left hand one and that was what it wanted to be I suppose. It’s watching us all.

Lately I ordered some nice pen accessories, including a cartridge converter for my Rotring pen and some coloured cartridges for my cheapo £5 cartridge pens, so I drew Nettle and Spider while I was messing around testing them. I’ve never done spot colour with ink and water, it looks pretty nice I think. Having said that, I’m not a fan of this ink. It’s a weird colour called Bilberry that can’t decide if it’s blue, purple or black. (I tweaked it in photoshop to make it more purple.) They do one called Imperial Purple that might have been a better bet. Ah well, next time.

Inktober 2018 : Day 2 - Brush pen and ink wash (in a waterbrush pen) Alexis is a type of angel made to interact with humans, so even his unnatural features look soft and friendly. He likes soft, fluffy clothes.