elantra: Sanabalis, Kaylin and the Arkon

Chronicles of Elantra Fanart.

This is not an illustration. It never happened in the books, but this image was inspired by a song I was listening to whilst reading Cast in Peril. I really loved the Arkon's concern for Kaylin, and I hope to see more of their exchanges in future books.

This piece has a rather strange background because of it's 2dimensionality. My second reason for painting this piece came when i was rifling through albums of Vermeer's and Van Eyck's works. I was inspired by the single source of light (window) in Vermeer's works, and the interesting/strange combination of 3dimensional characters, and a 2dimensional flat background in Van Eyck's works. Hence the strange background.

The chess pieces almost defeated me. And I thought painting a GO-board was difficult. :XD:

EDIT: My apologies to any chess players seeing this, for the mistake with the chess board. I have played hundreds of GO games, but only twice did I touch a chess board, playing with my grandfather when I was 8. So my knowledge of chess is close to non-existent.