DIGITAL ART | ORIGINAL CHARACTERS | FANTASY | LGBTQ
Darklaw | The Lost Daughter Cover Detail
Detail of the eleventh cover image for a series of Darklaw Stories.
I was excited to paint a scene from an entirely different part of the fantasy world, a snowy peak with a temple of disciples. This gave me a different color palette and lighting. I created the painting with my usual warm tones but then played with screens of varying colors and opaqueness until I got the ethereal quality I wanted for this scene at the top of the world.
I also got to paint a girl. Children’s proportions are quite different from adults — larger head and eyes, small jaw, rounded features. Avesha is on the edge of puberty, but she’s also a god, so she’s supposed to look older than her age. I hope the resemblance to her mother, Avestine, is clear. Maybe also, her father?
The Darklaw Saga is a linked story collection published at Tantalizing Tales and Redemption Magazine. Find all episodes here.
![Fantasy painting of a woman warrior with blonde hair, angry and looking at a teenage boy who is staring back. His mother is standing with him, happy about the forest she see off the balcony.](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:388:388/1*UNgB2uQsvCawmwJ9fWDWFw.jpeg)
![fantasy painting of two women arguing on a seaside port with ships in the harbor and wearing armor](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:388:388/1*c5BOBhbGq5r3E5Jg__jglQ.jpeg)
![fantasy setting with very pale young woman in the background, older dark-skinned woman in the foreground both in white fur with a mountain behind](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:388:388/1*utTEByNX87SxF79P-XT5WA.jpeg)