Author: Greenedera Art

I’m a graphic designer and a fantasy digital painter, class 1986, living in Verona, Italy. I started my artistic journey with traditional media (watercolors, acrylics) but since 2010 I started experimenting with digital painting (Photoshop painting on Wacom tablet). My work is usually the result of mixed media tecnique, with pencil/ballpen sketch and digital coloring and rendering. Since 2020 I take commissions for fantasy art.

New artwork: time for unicorns

Dear readers, I present you two new unicorn paintings: a quiet one, and a fiery one.
💧 “Unicorn brook” is a solitary, melachonic unicorn. Dark patterns swirls on its coat, like runes or scars.
🔥”Fire Unicorn” is a creature made of flames. A unicorn, yes, but full of energy, rebellion, power. And with a very pissed off look.
One painted last spring, the other this winter. In between, an artistic block not yet completely overcome. I’m working on it.

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Unicorn brook

“Unicorn brook,” my digital painting of a solitary, melachonic unicorn. Dark patterns swirls on its coat, like runes or scars. Painted with pencil, smartphone and photoshop in 2024.Time for unicorns. All around, there are dragons. But in the heart of the forest, near the spring, there is the unicorn. 💧 If you wait by the…

Fire unicorn

“Fire Unicorn,” my digital painting of a creature made of flames. A unicorn, yes, but full of energy, rebellion, power. And with a very pissed off look. Winter 2024. 🔥 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step [Confucio] Work in progress The sketch was born directly on the mobile phone drawing…

Article 07/12/2024 Elena “Greenedera” Zambelli #noai

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Dragonlance: Seekers of Solace

Art reveal: the manual “Seekers in Solace” is out, published on DM Guild by the Dragonlance Nexus. The 4 pieces created for this project, created in the distant May 2024, are linked at the bottom of the page.

📕 The manual “Dragonlance – Seekers of Solace” by the Dragonlance Nexus contains 4 original paintings by me.

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Article written on 09/11/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai

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Sketch – Elantris fanart: Raoden

Here for you (and for me) Prince Raoden from the book “Elantris,” by Brandon Sanderson. Fanart – fan+art – basically, what people want. Crave. I love a book, then I want to have something more, an illustration to celebrate the book, the character, to bring a scene to life as I imagined it.

“Elantris” is a beautiful book by Brandon Sanderson. A nice story, an interesting setting, and then that “thing” – invisible to the eyes – leaving something good inside.

Well, he’s not in a good shape right now. Raoden was “cursed”, yet he found the strenght to smile. To follow a purpose – and here there was the “secret” to ignore pain, hunger and desperation, by focusing on something constructive, something you enjoy doing.

“We’re not dead just because our hearts stopped beating. We need to convince ourselves that we can go on. The Shaod isn’t causing all the pain here—I’ve seen people on the outside lose hope too, and their souls end up just as emaciated as those poor wretches in the square. If we can restore even a tiny bit of hope to these people, then their lives will improve drastically.” [Elantris]

I had a bad day, so I created this simple sketch for myself. A scene from the book – a smile and a welcome – and a reminder. Yes, you are having a bad day, Raoden is also having a horrible day, but he finds the strength to smile. Because he has a purpose, he has hope.

Elena Greenedera Zambelli – Article 12/08/2024 #noai

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New Dragonlance paintings

New paintings and new publications: 3 new manuals by The Dragonlance Nexus!

Dragonlance update #1

My Sturm got a new cover! “Encounters: Tier 1” by the Dragonlance Nexus on DM Guild.

Dragonlance update #2

Coming soon: “Huma: Before the Lance – The dak patrol” – A new collaboration with Richard Knaak and the Dragonlance Nexus for a new manual (Short story + adventure)!

Inside, you will find 3 of my new paintings that will be revealed in the coming months…

Dragonlance update #3

Another Dragonlance Nexus project coming soon: “Preludes” – and, inside, other 3 new paintings!

Article written on 06/08/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai

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New: Raistlin – tea and books

Check “Raistlin, tea and books” , my new digital painting. The perfect day a solitary mage could imagine: tea, books and a nice time reading.

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Several other paintings are brewing up, news about them will come in the next weeks!

Work in progress

“Raistlin, tea and books” is my new digital painting. In occasion of Raistlin’s birthday, on 17 June 2024, I drew “something” about him as I did in the past 3 years. A personal challenge, a reminder I should draw something for myself.
Raistlin Majere is a character from the “Dragonlance” books by M. Weis and T. Hickman, this is a work of fanart.

Raistlin’s “day of life” is often the occasion of weird ideas from his friends – like surprise parties for him and his twin, silly and embarassing gifts he has no use for. So we should ask, what would the perfect birthday gift be? The answer is: a quiet day. A quiet day of tea and books.
Perhaps holed up in Lemuel’s house, like a friend suggested.

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Article written on 17/06/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai

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New: Sithtillaxx the dragon

Artwork reveal: digital painting of Sithtillaxx, a very ancient copper dragon in the Dragonlance fandom.

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“The coppers have a proud ancestry, dating back to the matriarch Querrasian. The offspring of her first eggs included Blayze and Hyaniss, who mated to create the eggs of the next generation. The survivors of that clutch were Tharn and Sithtillaxx who, upon their flight from the grotto, grew to maturity and survived to become the procenitors of all copper dragons living today.” (from the Fift Age Dragons – manual)

05/04/2024, Elena Zambelli #noai

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New: Lilith the librarian & Basalt Fireforge

Digital paintings of of Lilith Hallmark, Aesthetic and librarian from Solamnia, and Basalt Fireforge, hill dwarf and nephew of Flint in the Dragonlance fandom. Created as an internal illustrations for the game manual “Untold Quests” [coming soon on Dungeon Master Guild].

Lilith Hallmark had the honor of leading the recovery expedition to the library of Tarsis after its destruction. She cataloged and rearranged books and scrolls, and became one of the most influential aesthetics after Bertrem.

Basalt Fireforge is the nephew of the more famous Flint Fireforge, character of the Dragonlance books by M. Weis and T. Hickman. A neidar (hill dwarf) born in Hillhome. Trained as a smith, after much personal growth and adventures he became the Major of Hillhome and innkeeper.

This paintings will be interior art for an upcoming manual:

Untold quests: a new game manual by the Dragonlance Nexus for playing Dragonlance in Dnd5.

More info: coming soon!

Support my work by supporting the Dragonlance Nexus on Patreon

Artworks in this project:

Created on: 18/02/2024 Copyright 2024 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai

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Artwork reveal: Kitiara, Champions of Krynn

🗡🐲 Finally I can share a painting I was keeping under cover: “Kitiara Uth Matar and Myrtani the Aurak” – Dragonlance Fandom. The war is lost, the battlefield a disaster. Kitiara, dragonlord of the blue army, is giving a killing stare to her ally Myrtani the Aurak, currently ranting about the recent disaster. Commissioned as cover art for the upcoming DnD 5 manual by the Dragonlance Nexus “Champions of Krynn”

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Kitiara Uth Matar – Champions of Krynn

My new painting for the Dragonlance Nexus! The war is lost, and Kitiara Uth Matar is not happy. The fact Myrtani the Aurak is there, ranting and complaining about his new orders, doesn’t improve the situation. Commissioned as cover art for the upcoming DnD 5 manual by the Dragonlance Nexus “Champions of Krynn” – available…

© 2023 Elena Greenedera Zambelli “Kitiara Uth Matar – Champions of Krynn” , all rights reserved #noai

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New artwork: Big Bad Mushroom Dragon

🍄🍄 I’m excited to show my new painting of the Big Bad Mushroom Dragon. From pencil sketch to digital painting using cintiq and Photoshop: finally, a personal work.

Work in progress

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Big Bad Mushroom Dragon

My new painting of the Big Bad Mushroom Dragon. From pencil sketch to digital painting using cintiq and Photoshop. Personal work. Work in progress Is this a series? Perhaps This is the second of my mushroom dragons, a Very Responsible Adult. The first instead was the baby version: Details Video Art process video: recorded, final…

Artwork created on: 23/02/2024 – article 27/02/2024 Copyright 2024 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai

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New artwork: Sturm Brightblade

✨🎨 “Sturm Brightblade – The last stand” – A new fanart dedicated to the Dragonlance books, commissioned by A.B.

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“For a moment the sun-drenched sky was empty, then the dragon burst up over the edge of the wall, its horrifying scream splitting Sturm’s eardrums, filling his head with pain. […] Sturm’s sun shattered.” (From Dragon of winter night, Ch. 13. M. Weis & T. Hickman.)

I was asked to create a painting dedicated to Sturm’s last moments. Well, “that moment”, the one in which Sturm sacrifices himself to challenge a dragon and his rider alone, in order to gain precious seconds that will allow his companions to win the battle of the High Clerist Tower.
This moment has already been represented by the great Dragonlance painters and by many fanartists. I chose, in agreement with the client, a particular point of view. This is a close-up of Sturm as he is about to strike at his enemy. It is “that moment” of great courage, where the knight is literally staring his own death in his eyes, yet he challenges and conquers his own fear for the greater good.
The point of view of the painting is that of the blue dragon, Skie, who is about to glide over Sturm so that Kitiara can deal a killing blow.
The books talk about the blinding rays of the sun profiling the dragon and dragonlord, whose shadow is cast over the tower behind Sturm. For the rest, I chose a milder color scheme, which could coordinate with another great painting, Larry Elmore’s representation of Sturm’s death. My artwork seeks to be a “prequel” to that moment, that great painting, forever in the hearts of all Dragonlance fans.

“The last stand” – Copyright 2024 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai

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Nightshade, a tool against AI scraping

Nightshade is a new tool artists can employ to disrupt AI Models. This is important – since Ai models cannot “forget” they ate copyrighted material even though the owners of said stuff ask for removal, well… let’s give the models something bad to eat. Something that will corrupt the data already inside. Guten appetit, stronzi.

“More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into “poison” samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space.” (from What is nightshade, https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)

💚 Congratulations to all the researchers and artists who worked on this tool.

This said, right now Nightshade is available only for powerful desktop devices, but soon will be available via Browser. Most interesting, in fact, is Web Glaze, allowing artists to glaze their images even if they’re unable to install Glaze.

“How can I help support Nightshade and Glaze?
Thank you so much for thinking of us. It is important to us that we not only continue to provide Glaze to visual creators for free, but also extend its protective capabilities. If you or your organization may be interested in pitching in to support and advance our work, please contact our colleague Joshua Leavitt to learn more about gift opportunities for Glaze (managed by the University of Chicago campus offices).” (from FAQ, https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)

Other than this, please support the project by following it on:
X/Twitter: @TheGlazeProject IG: theglazeproject

Article written on 12/02/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai

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