"Fairy Sketch" by Hayley Marie Collier

thats amazing

heyy, im 15 and im completely amazed at your art work! seriously ive looked through all of them, and how you draw them its outstanding!! i like to draw manga too but shamly im no were near good enough as youu! i can only copy.. from the screen.. drawing not from my head so it would be wonderful if i could have permission, to maybe let me practice some of your art? btw how did you get so good, do you go to a art collage? or do you just constantly! like when ever!! x anyway your a brilliant artist! and you deff get others going to xx

Hayley Marie Collier replies: "Hi, thanks for your kind words. Of course you can use my pictures to practice, and that goes to anybody else who wants to. I started drawing manga when I was about 13ish. I copied characters from manga books and spent time practicing drawing my own characters in a similar style. You learn from drawing the same sort of characters over and over. After a while, you just get a feel for the size and position of features. I don’t use pencils anymore, I just use a biro because when you are drawing manga it looks better when it’s sketchy and a little untidy. Just practice, practice, practice . "

This picture is amazing how can you drawing like that. Do you copy it out of a book or did you create it yourself? Beth xx

Hayley Marie Collier replies: "When i was younger I used to copy images from manga books to get a sense of how to get that Japanese look to characters. I drew lots of different types of manga (I loved how characters were drawn in the Baby Birth manga. A very weird story but lovely art ^_^) and with lots of practice I developed my own characters and style. "

I’ve only just joined elfwood and ive already picked my favourite artist!!! Your amazing!!! Do you mind if I draw these for inspiration??


Hayley Marie Collier replies: "thats absolutely fine . Glad you like the gallery. "

This is gorgeous. Really gorgeous, it really caught my eye. I love her hair and the dress. I myself do draw, but I write more and seeing your work really makes my mind reel with all ideas for new stories.

This was was the first one that I got a good story line from. She looks like a princess. She’d be the spoiled type that looks down on others. But only because her mind is already out of the bounds of the castle. Free from her parents wishes to learn how to be a ’proper queen’. She isn’t who she really is, if you get what I mean.

That opportunity comes to her when war strikes the country and troops from other parts of the land get called in.

She’d sneak off and join a troop, wanting to do more for her country in appearance of a young man(/elf.)

Of course the leader of that troop is the love interest and oblivious first to who she is. Because.. Loreli... that would be her name, is a princess and used to get her way she acts difficult and raises suspicious of Thorn, the troop commander, eventually leading to him finding out she is the princess.

Loreli had met him before as the princess herself and immediately had taken a disliking to him because he could point out that she was only pretending. He acted sweet in front of her parents and then when they left them to ’get to know each other’ he opened up to her and pointed out her flaws and basically looked down on her.

Of course in the story line we’d have the enemy finding out she’s the princess, yadiyablabla. And as for the ending I’d have Loreli take note of Thorns words that she should be herself and go against her parents ect. ect.

Since I don’t believe in happy endings (because then I can never stop my stories and just go on and on and I don’t like those sappy love stories that end ’happily ever after’.) Thorn would return to his country and they’d meet only like years and years later.

Which could be a sequel but I’m not going to plan that out now, hehe. I really love your work, its amazing

hi im 12 and i can already draw these things at a good level i love your work and it has inspired me to do many more xxx

Wow! Your drawing is awesome!Your other drawings are nice too,you have great talent

LOVE IT! It made me feel like when i first saw the guy i loved,that how i thought i looked like!!

you copied my drawing, I have the heart signature on the chest

In reply to Jessica, i’ve never copied anybody elses drawings. The fact that she has a heart tattoo doesn’t mean that it is copied from anywhere. Im pretty sure there are lots of drawings of people with a heart tattoo.