So, I've not done a fanart for about 2 years now... I figured maybe I could get away with one or two. I don't really enjoy fanart that much, but to be honest I want to give homage to the things that got me into fantasy illustration in the first place - among the list of things are these characters. With homage in mind instead of senseless fanart - I actually enjoyed this piece and looked forward to working on it.

And yeah, I'll still get the obligatory "Why paint Drizzt? he's so over done" comments, but y'know? I honestly don't care.... I'll always get the people who think that dark elf fanart is unoriginal. Oddly enough these are usually the same people who have little redeemable factors about their own work..... but here is hardly the place for that speech.

To those who actually do like fanart, here is Drizzt Do'Urden and Artemis Entreri of the well known RA Salvatore fantasy series through Wizards of The Coast. A few days worth of work, though with plenty of breaks. Put it all together and I could have done this in the better part of a day I imagine.

This was painted in Painter IX over a very( very) rough pencil sketch. I've not used the program for about half a year, so this was a nice way to stretch the fingers a lil