Teaser: A Portuguese FolkTale – The Devil Prince

Art by StarTwo

Hello everyone,

Just like everybody else, we too count our blessings and are very grateful (by the way, a belated Happy Thanksgiving to all our North American visitors!) for continuing to grow and tackle work related to our passion: illustrating.

Alas, on the other hand, we have been saddened by the lack of time to translate and illustrate more wonderful Portuguese Folktales, since our free time has been reduced.

But let’s be sad no more! This next Friday we are happy to bring forth another tale in our collection entitled “The Devil Prince”! Please look forward to it and we will see you soon!

Until then, as always,

★Stay inspired!★

The Wolf and the Hawk ~ Ladyhawke Detail

Art by StarTwo

Sharing our love for old movies is something we enjoy, and today we’re showing a detail of our illustration from Ladyhawke – finished in 2019.

Check out the final version and also the lineart below. A click away to see them in a bigger size!

★Have a wonderful weekend, and like always, stay safe and stay inspired★

Sorrow Flowers – Work in Progress 3 (WIP)

A further look into the “Sorrow Cypress” as a work-in-progress on the “Sorrow Flowers” series. Each time closer to completing it!

You can also check the lineart for all of the pieces and the coloured versions at this point.

(We have the cutest supervisor in the world. She’s all heart♥)

★stay safe and stay inspired★

The Wolf and the Hawk ~ Ladyhawke Lines

We’re pretty happy to share with you the lines for the illustration we did of Ladyhawke. In case you missed the final version, you can check it ►here◄.
Every now and then, we feel it’s also interesting to give a peek at the linework since it’s usually covered or merely hinted on the colouring stage.
You can also see a closer sneak peek on this previous post.

★Stay inspired★

The Wolf and the Hawk ~ Ladyhawke

Always together, eternally apart

The nostalgia bug decided to pay us a visit!
Part of the 80s fantasy boom, Ladyhawke is a charming fairy tale movie that we hold dearly to our hearts.

Without going too deeply into the plot -and we came across dozens of lovely articles about it- the movie introduces us to Isabeau and Navarre who are cursed lovers.
Though always together, the two are kept apart by a demonic spell that steals their human forms.
Navarre turns into a wolf by night and Isabeau into a hawk by day. Only for the merest fraction, during either twilight or dawn do they almost see each other, but even then, their minds are still lost in their animal form.

How tragic and wondrous for a young heart! <- that was us.

But since we are still hopeless romantic fools, we decided to give a go at drawing the ethereal and beautiful Isabeau and her faithful love, the fierce Navarre. More than trying to do our own version of these fated lovers, we could only see them as the actors in the movie Ladyhawke, and since it came out before the book we feel that it’s even more fitting.

We get the feeling we will be revisiting this theme in future illustrations along with the movie and we really enjoyed trying to make the characters look like Rutger Hauer as Navarre and Michelle Pfeiffer as Isabeau.

We hope you get the chance to watch it sometime or to re-watch! And you can also check the linework sneak peek for this illustration right ►here◄.

★Enjoy your weekend and stay inspired!★