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SciFi & Fantasy Art / Gallery 533 of 882 / K. ´Karahatay´ Fink / Picture 7 of 24 / Elf in Mithril and Gold

"Elf in Mithril and Gold" by K. ´Karahatay´ Fink

SF&F Picture 7 out of 24 by K. ´Karahatay´ Fink

SciFi and Fantasy Art Elf in Mithril and Gold by K. ´Karahatay´ Fink

I made this for the Chainmail Bikini Contest in Elftown. I was planning on making it more comlex, but by the time I got to this point I thought it was good enough. I tried putting more in it, but it just made it too buisy. My thought process was what creature in it's right mind would wear a chainmail bikini. I decided a dwarf woman would. So I started out to draw a dwarf, planning to draw the body and then squish it, but it didn't work. So I just finished what I had and figured that maybe some elf woman would be willing to model it.

Then I decided that the chainmail had to be made of something that the ocean wouldn't ruin. So, what better than Mithril and Gold? A little on the pricey side, but guarenteed to never tarnish!

Drawn with pencil, coloured in Photopaint. About 10 hours.

Date	Name	Comment
12 Jul 2006	Laura Lucarelli	Loading... Wow, beutiful! Very sexy. I love the realistic colouring! I'm going to partecipate to that contest in elftown too (but mine is for newbies). It's gonna be tough battle! K. ´Karahatay´ Fink replies: "Mine's for the newbies, too. I've never won and elftwon art contest, either. Best of luck to you!!"
25 Jul 2006	J. Oliver	Loading... Wow that's one sexy elf mama! I wonder if chain mail chafes when it gets wet.... K. ´Karahatay´ Fink replies: "You know, I image that it probably does. I didn't even think of that when I designed it. I put the gold woven cloth under her hair because I knew that otherwise it would incesantly get caught and would be very annoying, and took in rust as as a consideration, hence the rust-proof materials, but didn't even think of chaffing... maybe with mail that fine though, it feels just more like stiff cloth..."
2 Dec 2006	Leanne Marie McGovern	Loading... Wow that is some very fine linked chain mail. I actually have seen a chain mail bikini in a medievial arms and armour store, and the links on it were actually a lot larger then the ones you have drawn. Not that its a bad thing, because i bet the detail in this was done in many painstaking hours. I actually mean that as a compliment because of that reason. personally i would have been lazy and made the links much larger. nice job K. ´Karahatay´ Fink replies: "Alas, I must admit that I cheated on the chainmail. I made myself a chainmail "template," just a copy of the chainmail pattern over and over, then I copied it on to the appropriate places on the image and shaded. I do think the links are a little too small, it's hard to tell it's chainmail without being told, but I didn't want to do the typical large link, see-through type chainmail either. So, really, I'm lazy too. I admire the artists who really do manage to draw every single link individually. That would drive me nuts, though. Thanks for commenting!!"
29 Mar 2007	Heidi Hecht	Loading... I hope this won the contest because it's a good pic.
13 Aug 2007	Vilhelmina Ullemar Lönnbom	Loading... I'd like to try one of those bikinis actually... It'd be so cool to have one. XD Her pose is very well pulled off - totally a bikini model thing. She seems to have a very long torso, though - but then, maybe some elves do? K. ´Karahatay´ Fink replies: "lol. Thanks. Yeah, her torso is long, she was intended to be a dwarf, but when I finished drawing her I realized that she didnt' want to be a dwarf, she wanted to be an elf, so I let her keep her long torso and long limbs..."

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About 'Elf in Mithril and Gold':

• Status: OK
• Created by:

K. ´Karahatay´ Fink
• Copyright: ©K. ´Karahatay´ Fink. All rights reserved!

• Keywords: Mithril, Gold, Woman, Bikini, Chainmail, Elf, Blond, Blonde, Swimsuit, Ocean, Sunset, Water, Clouds
• Categories: Body Study, Elf / Elves, Woman, Women
• Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Computer-coloured Picture
• Submitted: 2006-06-27 17:04:34
• Views: 1542
• Resolution: 1000x716

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