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Hello and welcome! I'm Elisabeth, although EK is fine too. Illustrator | Canada | She/her | www.ekbelsher.com | @ekbelsher on Instagram and Twitter

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Rough sketch for a thing I've had floating in my head all week. I wonder if I can get away with posting this on instagram

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Catherine and Heathcliff.

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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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Line art done! I'll try to paint it next week.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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Which is better, light or dark? Really different vibes

(from The Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black)

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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Time for some classics! Here's the sketch for now, will try to colour it soon

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I like all the things that make you monstrous

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Aw.

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Final scene of The Modern Faerie Tales: on New Year's Eve, Kaye, Roiben, Luis and Corny celebrate on Hart Island 🎆

Back endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Ironside by Holly Black

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Kaye drunkenly declares her love in front of the entire Unseelie court, forcing Roiben to send her on an impossible quest.

Front endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Ironside by Holly Black ✨

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To buy time, Val rips down the window coverings, turning Ravus to stone.

A troll can heal from almost any wound...but not a missing heart 💔 (Presumably a missing head would also pose a problem, but that’s not as romantic, is it) Back endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Valiant by Holly Black ✨

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Sea Holly (after all that, I think I like it better in monochrome)

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After all that complaining, this turned out not half bad. His hairy tits don't draw quite so much attention now that they're not the darkest thing in the image XD (For the Bookish Artists quarterly drawing challenge, where artists draw different characters based on the same reference pose)

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Exhausted and furious, Roiben licks his wounds in Kaye's aggressively pink childhood bedroom. Back endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Tithe by Holly Black :)

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Ravus teaches Val how to use his glass sword 🗡️

From Valiant by Holly Black

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Ravus teaching Val how to use his glass sword ✨

From Valiant by Holly Black

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Roiben kneels before the Unseelie Queen as goblins clutch at her skirts, with Kaye watching wide-eyed in the background :) (Front endpaper I drew for the Illumicrate edition of Tithe by Holly Black)