October 4, 2022 - "Queen Lucifera in the House of Pride" from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Today I am happy to share a new illustration I did for a book version of The Faerie Queene. It was first drawn on Strathmore Bristol and then colorized in Photoshop. In this post I will talk about some of the development that went into it.   Drawing (Traditional Pencil on Smooth Bristol Paper)   Digital Color comp (Photoshop) I did not have a tremendous amount of reference for this scene. The original drawing was made purely from imagination. The client had never picked it out as a scene that needed a color version, so I did not bother with models or photo-shoots or exhaustive reference gathering. Later on, this image was chosen by Patrons in a poll to be one that…