Marie Baumgarten

freelance illustrator

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✨ Sketches and process gif for my latest illustration! ✨

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Yari, Awakened Pyromancer Personal Illustration of my character Yari, channeling her inner fire magic🔥

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Some of the items I painted for the lovely folks over at Mad Lizard Games for their upcoming TTRPG project. I believe these were all done in early to mid 2023.

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I almost forgot to upload this here! A personal piece I did last year of my character Umïel arriving at Tanzelwil to convene with the ancestral spirits. The story is set in the Elder Scrolls Universe!

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GER (english below!) Vor ein paar Monaten hatte ich die Möglichkeit drei neue Cover für Marah Woolfs Götterfunke Trilogie anzufertigen! Die Bücher werden als Teil einer Luxuskollektion bei der Bücherbüchse neu aufgelegt und werden ein Wendecover haben, eine Seite von mir illustriert, die andere von der großartigen Gabrielle Ragusi

Titelgestaltung und Farbschnitt: Bücherbüchse

Hoffe die Cover gefallen euch!  ____ ENG

A few months ago I had the opportunity of illustrating three new covers for Marah Woolf’s Götterfunke Trilogy (German Author).

My Covers will be part of a reversable sleeve, one side illustrated by me the other by the incredible Gabrielle Ragusi (<- link to her Covers, they are stunning!)

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Just wanted to say I LOVE your most recent earthsea piece!! The soft light on the tower in the bg, the particles and light coming from the spirit, the cool blues and Ged being in shadow, everything just makes it look so ethereal!!! It's stunning!

Aah thank you so much! I'm so sorry I'm only getting back to you now but thank you for your kind words, I'm so happy you found joy in this little piece of art :)

To make up for my late answer, take some old Ged fanart:

(this is how I imagined him in Book 1)

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Hi my loves, 

I spent a bit of time compiling all of my favourite sketches from the past few years and put them together into a digital sketchbook.

It contains over 30 pages with sketches, character designs and paintings of my characters Yari and Umïel. 

It’s available at Ko-fi for a small fee. I’d appreciate it if you took a look and thank you so much for your support and the sweet sweet reblog tags on my latest upload. I see you guys ♥

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My interpretation of one of my favourite scenes in the first Earthsea novel when Ged tries to resurrect the lady Elfarran but accidentally unleashes a shadow. I cannot describe to you how much I love these novels, especially the first one gave me so many chills while reading 😊

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Chapter starter Illustrations for Fading Suns: Lost Worlds from earlier this year.

Still super happy with how this turned out, even though this was my first time working on a larger illustration for a professional client.

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More characters and a weird little moss creature painted for Fading Suns ttrpg earlier this year.

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another private commission.

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Private commission of a tiefling family. Such a lovely subject to paint!

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Some props I painted earlier this year for a private ttrpg designer. I learned a ton doing this, if you’re looking to improve your understanding of different materials and surfaces I totally recommend painting items like these. 

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Some of the characters I painted for Ulisses Fading Suns ttrpg in 2021. I used myself as face reference for one character, can you guess which one? :P

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How much is the candy..? (2021)

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two quick key moments in my character Umiel’s life, she’s my ESO character. If you know, you know ;)

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More portraits, can you tell it’s my favourite thing to paint, yet? :) These are from 2020 and 2019 I think.