Category: Melkem

The centaur theme continues with Hawk and Ren’i. It took me a couple of months to work on this – the poses and layout proved troublesome, not the mention having to figure out horse anatomy…

What if, in an alternate universe, they were centaurs instead? This thought has plagued me all summer long to the point where I finally had to draw something based on it. I wanted to paint…

The Threefold Soul is, at its very core, the tale of Ren’i and Hawk’s romance, but that doesn’t mean Ren’i hasn’t had other lovers or otherwise beloved people in his life before. Here are some…

Ren’i and Hawk’s private moment in the night-time garden. The lilac blossom is not only the coat of arms of the Kishan imperial house, but also one of my favourite flowers, so naturally I couldn’t…

I got my hands on a round watercolour pad recently and naturally I couldn’t resist testing it with Hawk and Ren’i. My colour palettes for them tend to be rather earthy, mostly because a great…

Of all my characters I enjoy drawing Hawk the most, and this is probably my favourite picture of him so far. Lately, I’ve really liked this sort of simple colour palette – shades of brown…

Recently, I’ve been really attracted to this sort of composition in my illustrations (which I’d drawn several times with various characters throughout the year), and naturally I had to draw Hawk and Ren’i in one,…

At last, a couple of Ren’i’s tattoos are properly visible! Inking them took a couple of hours, though. I curse myself constantly for deciding to give half the cast tattoos – the downside of drawing…

An early illustration of two slightly more minor characters, one of whom is Oerei, Ren’i’s father (top right). His arm tattoos are missing, because I was still in the process of designing them when I…

Hawk and Ren’i out on a ride. Featuring Ren’i’s noble steed, Vasama, for the first time! I don’t draw horses often, so he ended up a little too small for his riders…