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
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
New paintings and new publications: 3 new manuals by The Dragonlance Nexus!
My Sturm got a new cover! “Encounters: Tier 1” by the Dragonlance Nexus on DM Guild.
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…
Another Dragonlance Nexus project coming soon: “Preludes” – and, inside, other 3 new paintings!
Article written on 06/08/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai
New painting, a sorceress for a DnD campagin! Check the painting page for more
This painting makes a pair with a previous portrait, “Anthony”.
Check “Raistlin, tea and books” , my new digital painting. The perfect day a solitary mage could imagine: tea, books and a nice time reading.
Several other paintings are brewing up, news about them will come in the next weeks!
“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.
Article written on 17/06/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai
Artwork reveal: digital painting of Sithtillaxx, a very ancient copper dragon in the Dragonlance fandom.
“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
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!
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A digital painting of Lilith Hallmark, Aesthetic and librarian from Solamnia, in the Dragonlance fandom. Created as…
A digital painting of Basalt Fireforge, hill dwarf in the Dragonlance fandom. Created as an internal illustration…
Created on: 18/02/2024 Copyright 2024 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai
🗡🐲 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”
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
🍄🍄 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.
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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
✨🎨 “Sturm Brightblade – The last stand” – A new fanart dedicated to the Dragonlance books, commissioned by A.B.
“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.
“Sturm Brightblade – The last stand” – A new fanart by greenedera art, dedicated to the Dragonlance books
“The last stand” – Copyright 2024 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai
The year started with 7 new dragons! Check each of them on my website by clicking this article. 🎨🐲
This is now the third year I have participated in Matt Stawicki’s ”Dragonary challenge”, an opportunity to spend a month drawing dragons.
“But couldn’t you draw them any time of the year?” you might ask me.
Yes, and sometimes I do, but other times a kick in the butt (in this case, the decision to commit to the challenge) is what is needed to overcome laziness, distraction, or having a thousand new ideas and then not following them through. Or artblock.
Last year I found the strength to draw 31 new dragons (really, I don’t know how I did it), but this year I decided to focus on 7, thus dedicating a little time every day to the four main phases of creating my paintings: 1) sketch 2) lineart 3) creation of flat shapes 4) painting and rendering. Specifically, since there were no prompts from Matt Stawicki this year, I used this opportunity to “draw again” some of my (very) old dragon sketches. Comparing the old and the new gave me a lot of satisfaction.
Forcing myself to draw these seven dragons helped me restart after a period of (more or less forced) break from painting. In the meantime I have started working on several new projects again, which I hope to share soon.
One of the “extra projects” that I love the most is an expansion and retouching work for a dragon created last year, and that I love very much: the Grumpy sentinel now has a horizontal format, perfect as a desktop wallpaper, and a finishing softer for rendering lights.
Article written on 03/01/2024 – No unauthorized reproduction. – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai
31/10/2023 ✨🎨 “The Irda Sorceress” – Another illustration for the novel series “Children of Hell” by S. Weber aka Winterhawk! A close fight, an epic spell, tons of details!
“The irda sorceress” – Copyright 2023 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai
