Fan Art by Andrea Osakoda

Feist is my favorite fantasy author. This is my interpretation of one of my favorite scenes: Milamber at the Arena Games. Apalled by the bloodthirst and violence of the Tsurani, Milamber is outraged. He unleashes his power in a punishing series of elemental chaos, raining death and destruction as his judgement for their transgressions upon mankind. It took me a few days to do this one. I used a mixed media of graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, markers, and some computer touch-ups to create this look. It was certainly hard to get the pose correct, and if I planned it out better, maybe I could've gotten more satisfying results.

Here's the Faerie Queen original scanned in as line art at 72 dpi (never intended to put this version up online, since I planned to turn it into a computer graphic). As you can see, the scan is pretty bad, but since I wasn't going to 'magic wand' or 'trace' it, it served my purposes alright. Actually, I kind of like it.

Though it was a pretty scary book (it being dark fantasy), I really loved reading 'Faerie Tale'. I was especially intrigued by the fae portrayed in the book, and its relations to actual myths and fairy tales. This one is done completely by computer. I drew a quick sketch (took about 10 minutes) and then redrew it manually to create vector graphics. I was tempted to use the 'trace' or 'magic wand' options, but wanted to keep the sketch in light pencil, thinking to alter it later. I found I have more control if I vectored the entire thing, and I think this pic took me all week to do (during my free time). This is my first time doing a vectored character image like this, but I like the results (though compressing it to jpg really mucked it up!). I'll also try to post the black & white original scan as well. I used CorelDraw 10 & 11 to draw this in the computer.