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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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New paintings: “dragonary 2024”

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.

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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

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Selkie by greenedera

New artwork: Selkie

🎨 14/09/2023 New painting of a lovely Selkie, a mythological creature that can shapeshift between seal and human forms by removing or putting on their seal skin. Commission portrait for a selkie character of a private roleplaying campaign. Check the artwork page!

🎨💦🧜‍♀️ Selkie

If you’re interested in prints, just let me know.

Created on: 12/09/2023 – Copyright 2023 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai

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Artwork update: dragons

05/09/2023 – A bunch of dragon paintings uploaded on my website! January 2023 was an intense moment, and I had not yet the time and the occasion to properly upload the flock of dragons that spawned from the Dragonary challenge.

🌕 The Golden Hoarder, 🍄 Grand Mushroom Dragon, 🔥 Fairy fire dragon, 📜 Medieval dragon, 🌊 Indigo sea serpent, 💧 Skerry reef drake, 🦄 Beware of my dragon friend, 🌄 Grumpy sentinel, 🍃 I believe I can fly, 🌀 Flaming amphiptere, 🐟 The coral wyrm, 🦋 Butterfly dragon, 🌺 Queen of the pond, 🌋 Magma dragon.

In each dragon page, their story and work in progress pics. Soon, more to come!

If you’re interested in prints, just let me know and I will set them.

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New artwork – Production time vs Publication time

New artwork update:

Yes, I’m still here.

The contemporary age, internet, social media and everything in between, imply the need for constant updates (well, even normal relationships between people, actually 😅.) Yet, it is known, from time to time artists disappear off the face of the earth. Then, suddenly, they come back and dump a bunch of new creations.
Obviously, I too fall into this category… in the last few months I have accumulated a series of new paintings: some I can already publish, while for others it is necessary to wait for specific dates agreed with the people I work with: you can see some sneak peeks, at times, in my IG and FB stories.
Today I share 4 new paintings – then, there are other 7 in my “secret stack,” plus other 3 “work in progress”. Be patient, subscribe to web updates, and you will discover them in the next months: I can’t wait to share them with you.

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New artwork: Lord Ariakas

🎨 Hello, still catching up with the publication of my paintings! This one was fun; created between April and May, it gave me the occasion to challenge myself with the depiction of a character I had never tried before: Lord Ariakas.

Lord Ariakas

🎨 My new digital painting of Ariakas, champion of Takhisis and Emperor of Ansalon during the War of the Lance. Commission for F.N., as a personal handout for a game campaign. “He was described as being tall of stature and possessing an impressive muscular physique. A physically…

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Artwork created on 15/05/2023 – Copyright Elena Zambelli “Greenedera” #noai

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New artwork: Varin, the Oath of Vengeance

Things were a bit complicated lately and only now have I found the occasion to publish my new painting. Set in the Dragonlance fandom for a custom D&D campaign, the illustration is about the kagonesti elf Varin, committing herself to an Oat of Vengeance. Commissioned by A. T.

Varin’s Oath of Vengeance

My new painting, set in the Dragonlance fandom for a custom D&D campaign, where we see one of the main characters, the kagonesti elf Varin, committing herself to an Oat of Vengeance. Commissioned by A. T. Varin is at a sacred grove of the Beast Lord called Dark Raven, a favored companion of Habbakuk’s; it…

Artwork created on 20/03/2022 – Copyright Elena Zambelli “Greenedera” #noai

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