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Pella Regina

Copic marker and colored pencil on paper
2023

This is a sneak peak at art for a sourcebook I'm working on for the Torg Eternity Infiniverse Exchange, involving the cosm of Aysle. While the book is written and edited, I'm choosing to do all of the illustrations myself, so it's going to be a while before it's ready for release. Regardless, I thought I'd go ahead and share a piece I just finished for it. This is a section of the royal portrait of Her Majesty, Pella Ardinay, the first Queen of Aysle. Art of this proportion isn't usually used in Torg books, but since this project is unofficial, I figured I could break the mold a little and add a bit of my own flare to the layout. It's done in the style of Tudor royal portraiture, or at least as close to it as I could muster using markers and pencils instead of oils. I considered trying out some AI tools to make it both more realistic and to look more like an oil painting, but I decided against it. AI is pretty controversial and, honestly, I don't really know how to use it. Everything I've tried to make is terrible.