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Welcome! I'm Elisabeth illustrator | fantasy | she | 🇨🇦
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The Queen and King of Elfhame, all grown up.🗡️ I’ve been captivated by this power couple and the fantasy world @blackholly created for as long as I’ve been a bookish artist. Every time I draw Cardan I try to make him look handsome yet unequivocally nonhuman, with sharp elfin features and so on, but he always ends up looking a bit like a ferret
#judeduarte #cardangreenbriar #hollyblack #thefolkoftheair #jurdan #bookishart #ekbelsher
09 Oct 2026
“Come on, Darlington,” she said. “Let’s give them hell.”🔥
I’m so excited for Dead Beat, the final book in @lbardugo’s Ninth House trilogy! I got my copy two days ago but I’m only five chapters in because I wanted to get Alex Stern and business casual Darlington finished by Friday. I know what I’ll be doing this weekend tho 🖤🖤
I tried a new swishy-line drawing technique with the background, and it’s definitely something I’ll be using again. I’m in experimentation mode these days :)
#darlingstern #leighbardugo #leighbardugobooks #bookishart #hellbent
18 Sep 2026
When you get caught talking to crows 🗝️ I thought I’d do a piece for the witchy season this year, one that suggests a story. I wonder what she’s up to. She looks a bit like the letter-reading girl that I drew recently, the one I now think of as Catherine Earnshaw. Which reminds me, I need to do one of Catherine and Heathcliff, and this is the season for it. We’ll see if I find time. I’m up to my eyeballs in the Beauty and the Beast writing project 🥀
#crows #witches #spookyseason #fantasyillustration #fantasyillustrator #ekbelsher
23 Oct 2025
His skin is wrong, too: greyish and darkly pigmented under pale eyes that have no pupils.
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All right. Time to get back in the saddle. October was a shit month of epic proportions, and last week’s simple Halloween drawing was a forced, necessary exercise — the equivalent of getting back on a horse that has just thrown you off and doing a single lap of the ring, even though your knee is broken. You have to show the horse — and yourself — that setbacks won’t stop you.
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But now it’s November, things are looking up, and it’s time for the real work. Every time I take a long break, I always feel like I’ve forgotten how to draw. 🫠 So I started with a straightforward portrait, which admittedly is easier than drawing characters in a scene, but much harder than last week’s trees and zombies. But I drew something! And I like it! He looks so utterly fed up and unimpressed. 😆 And today I’ll draw something else. I’m going to keep getting on that horse until she responds to my lightest touch. By the end, I will have illustrated the Beauty and the Beast retelling that I’ve had to repeatedly shelve so many times I’ve lost count.
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#fairytaleretelling #retellings #thebeast #bookishart #bookishartist #fantasyillustrator
06 Nov 2026
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This has been the worst month of my life and I’ve got nothing left in the tank, so I decided to just sit down and draw a picture like I used to when my first kid was small. She would instruct me on how and what to draw, in that charmingly bossy way of three-year-olds, and I would obey. No sketch, no planning, no worrying about realistic proportions, no stress. What came out this time looks a lot like my early attempts at children’s illustration, before the kidlit industry made it clear it did not want me. Style and theme are, as usual, hilariously mismatched. Cute zombies? Gore? Forest fire? I can’t imagine why I couldn’t get work as a picture book illustrator.💀
#halloween #zombies #fantasyillustrator #bookishartist #ekbelsher #halloweenartwork
31 Oct 2026
I don’t know if my family has done something to anger the gods, but it has been two solid weeks of absolute mayhem at the Belsher house and we’re all so tired we can’t see straight. Next week I am absolutely going to find time to draw something spooky before we’re into November. But I did change this Val and Ravus thing to Halloween colours and it made me smile.
#themodernfaerietales #hollyblack #thefolkoftheair #bookishartist #fanartfriday
23 Oct 2026
I’m delighted to finally share the piece I made for Mara Rutherford’s MY UNFAMILIAR preorder campaign! This is a book for fans of cozy fantasy and romantasy 💕 Visit @mararutherfordwrites for details. The cheerful pink and green colours are quite a departure from my usual moody palette, but omg I had SO much fun with this. I got my daughter to pose holding a pair of knickers, which was a new one for her, and my son definitely understood the assignment (my young adult children are the reason I don’t bother with pose software. No need for stiff grey models when you have poseable humans! What will I do when they move out). And the mini unicorn! It has been a very long time since I’ve drawn a horse or horse-adjacent animal, but I drew little else for most of my childhood and it turns out I can still draw one from memory.
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#myunfamiliar #cozyfantasy #bookishartist #bookishart #ekbelsher
16 Oct 2026
It’s October! 🎃 While updating my website to include a separate gallery for my more heavily stylized art (flat colours, bold lines, decorative borders, that kind of thing), I changed this previously-pink Kaye x Roiben drawing to Halloween season colours so that it doesn’t look out of place with all of my other art and omg I like it so much better
#themodernfaerietales #thefolkoftheair #tithe #hollyblack #faeries #bookishart #ekbelsher
01 Oct 2026
Fall is upon us! 🍂 There are two kinds of people who get excited about it: the pumpkin spice people and the eldritch people. Cozy versus eerie. I know which one I am, and I offer this otherworldly fairy creature to celebrate the start of the season. Which are you?
#faeries #faefolk #faerie #fae #fantasyillustrator #ekbelsher
25 Sep 2026
I was off work for a whole week due to having the plague, and I’ve got two nearly-finished pieces that can’t be posted yet, so today I’m going to share an artwork I did for the 2024 release of The Lies of Alma Blackwell by the very talented @amandabglaze 😊 It’s a really good read (as is her debut novel The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond!), and among the pieces I finished that year, this is my favourite ❤️
#bookishart #witchyreads #bookcharacters #bookishartist #ekbelsher
11 Sep 2026
I’m sick as a dog this week and don’t have anything new to show, but since y’all seemed to like seeing process sketches from The Modern Faerie Tales last week, I thought I’d share some more today. Please enjoy this funny image of Kaye bringing a furious Rath Roiben Rye back to her childhood bedroom after an Unseelie court brawl. I’m also sharing the awkward thumbnail sketch because I saw one of @naarielart’s super rough sketches on threads the other day, and for some reason it made me very happy. Every piece starts out hilariously rough! I like doing the perspective by hand, and if it’s two-point perspective I have to start with a very small image on a big sheet of paper so I can mark the vanishing points outside the frame. The perspective will look distorted if the vanishing points are too close together. The red lines mark the centre fold and bleed. Also, Kaye’s hands look weirdly long because she has an extra joint on each finger. 🙂
#tithe #hollyblackbooks #illumicrate #themodernfaerietales #bookishart
04 Sep 2026
Sketch roundup for the @illumicrate edition of Tithe by @blackholly: Roiben kneels before Queen Nicnevin of the Unseelie Court. 🖤 With a sprawling scene like this, I usually draw the focal characters first, then draw the set and move the characters around until I’m happy with it. Placement can be a bit tricky with endpapers because nothing important can fall in the gutter (the middle fold of the book), and you also have to be mindful of the dust cover flap. Normally it works best if both characters are on the same side of the gutter, but here Roiben is kneeling, which means he takes up a lot of horizontal space. It worked better to put Nicnevin and Roiben on either side, and place Nicnevin close enough to the midline that she’s not covered by the flap. You can just barely see the remnants of the perspective guidelines to help me draw the checkerboard floor 😊
#tithe #themodernfaerietales #rathroibenrye #bookishart #hollyblackbooks
28 Aug 2026
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