SciFi and Fantasy Art: Gildor the Elven Sea Mage

uber-spiffy! lol. I love all of the different colours! they almost seem random, but in the end they all come together so beautifully! excellent!

I really like all the variety of colors you used. This character also resembles a native american. Great work, keep it up.

Ugly??? Annoymous should look so good at 900 years. Strict, perhaps (dealing with a headstrong princess will bring that out in one) but ugly, no. Personally, I think he look magnificent, very dignified.

That's incredibly creative, I love his expression and all the beautiful colors! All my life I've wanted to draw a sunset over the sea, but I'm not that good yet!

i am no sea elf (actually i am of Woodland kind) and i believe you have done the sea-elves a great complement in this drawing. Well done!

wow...simply wow...how you can handle colour! Amazing!

Audrey S. Totire replies: "thanks--I love using color, although sometimes I turn my work into an Easterbasket"

I love the shading how you used different colors some which normally wouldn't be used to shade flesh and yet it works really well here. It's stunning. I tried something like this once, my charachter just ended up looking green and sickly.

Audrey S. Totire replies: "Using the unexpected colors is something that I do often. It's nice to learn color theory and how colors apply to different surfaces. I would suggest keep trying and experimenting with different techniques. Thanks for your comment "

Again - stunning about your colouring skills...!!!

Now that's a face with character! I try so hard to give my portraits personality but it's hard to keep them from looking like caricatures. Gildor's face is suited to someone who has spent alot of time at see. In fact, he looks pretty darned spry for a 900 year old.

The colors are scrumptious.

This is a very poor rendering of the arch mage Gildor. I saw him while vactioning in the low highlands of northern bali. You have not captured his true magnificance. The rumors of a hump and facial mole propogated by a disenchanted lover are, sadly, true. Perhaps it was that on this day he was seen in a florescent light factory overseeing his many investments. Or, perhaps it was that the artist viewed him from an unflattering angle through thick glass so as to cock his left eye so. Other investments such as sardine canning and bocce ball manufaturing where avoided to great affect in this portrait. I will end with the fact that due to a childhood trauma, that I shall not mention, Gildor is DEATHLY afraid of water. Making the background misleading and utterly proposterous.
President Bothchnor of the 5th Intergalactice Senate of Elders Catering.

Audrey S. Totire replies: "Funny. I am sitting beside Gildor right now and he says, (now I quote, these are strictly his words and not mine, so please take no offense),"I can see that the Media Mavens have been having a field day in the press with regards to my apparent health and wellness and this correspondent above has OBVIOUSLY bought into the spin that my over zealous PR representative has been weaving all over the ether and the many planes/realms.
I do once again say to this, poor, misinformed misenthrope who has sooooo been befudled by the papparazzi that I am indeed fine, I am indeed well and well the artist is certainly at liberty to interpret the GRANDNESS that is I, but a humble ship's mage. And of course, being sea elf ancestry, it would seem somewhat a tragic misconception on the above recorder's part that I would be afraid of the water!!! Seek counselling dear lad! Seek counselling with utmost dispatch!!!"
***And so there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth (and Gildor wishes to clarify that he is not a horse so as not to befuddle those who believe everything that they read). Perhaps the Gildor you know of is not the same as the Gildor represented in this picture. Mistaken identity.Happens all the time. After all, there are so many "Gandalfs" out there."