Elric of Melnibone

Prismacolor pencil, watercolour markers, silverleaf and goldleaf pens on paper. approx 8-1/2x11inches. The white-ish bg pattern was highly metalic silver, the sort of greenish ocher was highly metalic gold.

Micheal Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone - the original "Elric" for whom Edward Elric is named as an homage, the archetype for Vampire Hunter D, etc etc, all the doomed tragic langourous sexy but aloof heroes, guilt-ridden and mourning lost love...Elric was the last emporer of Melnibone, the Elvin kingdom that was ancient when human civilization was just beginning...a frail albino, he is sustained by his demon sword Stormbringer that devours the souls of those it kills...and Stormbringer does what it wills, much to Elric's horror and sorrow...Elric served the god-like Lords of Chaos, but brought about the catastophic end of their reign, the end of his age and people and magic and the beginning of the human age...

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Drawn in the sketch book of a friend of the friend the Roland sketch was drawn for...around '93 ?...thought i'd try to draw a hot looking guy for her...this was before any of the yaoi pretty-boy stuff had been translated or published in the west, i hadn't seen any thing like that back then.

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