trying to perfect orphne's form... it's funny because i like stylized anatomy in other people's styles but for my own at this point i really am trying for realism. anyway did you know you can have beautiful women in your sketchbook for free
#twilight gest
eleyn... drawing this was really fighting me. partially bc i accidentally made the canvas huge so it took forever. cloak pattern sketched on bc i need to figure out how to stylize it
curse of the trying to create a weird medieval color scheme that is legible and looks good
eleyn... drawing this was really fighting me. partially bc i accidentally made the canvas huge so it took forever. cloak pattern sketched on bc i need to figure out how to stylize it
since "elf" in twilight gest is already an in-universe loanword (from the fantasy northmen), i'm debating using the mercian spelling (aelf, f. aelfen) or west saxon (ielf, f. ielfen) for some historical verisimilitude but this might be too twee. the local name is "the fair family" (y tylwyth teg), but you can't use that as a descriptor for an individual. the thing is i LOVE playing with archaic and/or non-modern english words. my toxic tolkienian trait.
i guess people have readily accepted "faerie" instead of "fairy" as the currently dominant spelling of that so aelf might not be a step too far...?
after testing this incidentally aelf was too twee. i'm still curious about ielf but it's back to just elves for now. i am sticking to "elvish" rather than "elven" to preserve the possibility of "elfen" as a feminine form.