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The lion and the doe

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Weeee, a commissioned work!

I did this for my friend :iconenlothien: ~Enlothien, who compiled the logs from an MUD RPG campaign into a book for the player of Sennah, the tall blond guy on the right.
Personally I only know bits and pieces from the campaign - I am not involved myself, but various of my friends are, so occasionally I'll hear about another interesting/exciting/amusing/frustrating episode. But I don't know the whole story.

But Enlo provided me with this particular scene and other random bits of information I pestered her for (including things like "In which hand does Sennah wield his sword? Is it a problem that he's left-handed as I depicted him?", or "What would the design of the tower be like? Like, who built it?", etc). Basically the Elven paladin Sennah and the half-Elven healer Asyn finally manage to grasp a moment of quiet between the turmoils of their quest. Asyn notices that Sennah (prototypical heroic male ;)) needs looking after, and Sennah finds that he... rather likes Asyn.

I quite like the contrast between those two - tall and bright vs. small and dark, righteous force vs. gentle wisdom. (It's a weeee bit on the kitschy side, but hey, we can't all do postmodern deconstructions of romance. ;))

I'm not happy with the way the sky turned out - the paper dried too fast so the surface got all stripey. Gnah.

Enlo has documented the process of making the book here [link] - but the text is in German, so those of you who can't read it will have to make do with the nice pictures.
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The colors in here are so rick and deep, I love it. :D Or is it just the satuartion on the computer. ;) It looks lovely in the book as well. :) Several things that stick out to me particularly. Firstly, the gorgeous embroidery on the hem of his tunic (hey, I'm a sucker for celtic knots, what can I say?) His hair styling is also amazing, I like how creative you got with all the braids crisscrossing and all that. :D And that blue shade of Asyn's robes is...ah, how shall I say it, probably one of my FAVORITE blues. I love it. :D It's perfect and rich and deep, and I just love the color blue. :XD:

Bleh. Uncooperative watercolors. I feel your pain. My skies always get stripey, I have to do the whole thing in a quick, wide wash. If I go back for more paint it gets "stipey' as you said. :D