I am a freelance artist based in France working under the pseudo Elwyn Rain . I love to draw fantasy and TTRPG illustrations. I mostly draw medieval fantasy and sometimes retrofuturistic universes, taking inspiration from my TTRPG games. My favourite subject to paint in the medieval fantasy genre is dwarves! I am also a geologist passionate about rocks and fossils, which I love to include in my drawings.
A few month ago, when I saw the first announcement for Reality Fracture MtG set I get really excited about it and especially about the implication for one of my all time favorite MtG character, Vraska. So I get into a bit of "what if" and fanart, and I thought it could be cool to share more in deep my process to create this piece ! Reality fracture is a lot about "mirror" version of well known…
Hello everyone ! Its been a couple month that I am sketching a lot so its time for another sketchbook tour, and this one longer than the precedent one ! Lets start with some short studies from TrueRef amazing cyberpunk pack , that I had a lot of fun working on ! A lot of pencil studies I also went into the mountains for a couple of days at the end of April so it was the occasion for some quick…
Have you ever wonder where stone witches came from ? Or what are the plan for the future ? This post is for you ! Stone witches is my personal illustration project where I explore ways to symbolically represent stones and their properties. It is also an opportunity for me, as a geologist, to share my knowledge of rocks and minerals. For each piece of art, I complement my existing knowledge with…
Lineart is an inherent part to drawing, one day you stumble on it, you may like it, you may not, but its here and you probably done some. You may ignore it and go without it if you hate it, you may do it you entire style if you love it. Or you may never choose. I am in this last case, I stumbled upon lineart multiple time trough the years, tried different approaches and what was in the day a…
Its been some time already but while I am working on some NDA project, I wanted to share with you some behind the scene of the work I've done for Paul Scott Canvan mentorship . If you are looking to improve your skills and you focus on magic style work, I absolutely recommend it ! A cool dinorider The brief was to create an mtg-like illustration of a heroes and their animal mount. I wanted to take…
Hello everyone, I want to do some longer process post soon but in the meantime here a small sketchbook tour, and a couple digital studies ! I try to study a bit every week, and to train on various subject. A huge focus recently has been anatomy. Here some studies from true ref packs mostly as well as a couple unsplash pictures. Some badass women sketches One eternal struggle is hand, so I've done…
Today I want to share with you the process behind an oil painting I've worked on last summer. My most ambitious by this time, and biggest canvas ever ! The final ! The global idea I wanted to paint something about Oblivion, as I was playing a lot Oblivion : Remastered, and was inspired by what I've done many times before for Skyrim. Some Skyrim inspired oils paintings But for these (and a lot of…
Hello everyone ! Let's talk a bit about the stone witch painting I worked on in January and February. Before starting, if you don't know my Stone Witches series that's a series of drawing where I create personification of stones and minerals, bringing in scientific and historic fact about the stones to create unique character. This one is the 29th of the series, you can discover all her sisters…
I initially posted this as a thread on social media, last December but I think it would be worth it to share it here too in a bit of a longer form ! So here we go : Comparison of my art over 5 years 5 years ago I decided I wanted to create art like the one in DnD books. I might be not here for now but I learnt a lot, especially on how to learn. And honestly that's probably the most important…
Hello everyone ! Its time to start this blog ! Who am I ? I am a french freelance artist, working mostly in digital but learning slowly acrylics and oils. One day in 2021 I decided I wanted to draw things like the characters in DnD books and 5 years later here I am, still on my way toward this goals but having learnt tones of things, met amazing peoples and discovered new goals for my art ! I…