✨ Welcome! ✨ Didn't realise I could pin posts until now 😅 so I thought I'd make a welcome post. I'm Dea, a freelance illustrator from Malta. I mostly do character focused illustration and cover art for books and TTRPGs, and I generally just love painting most things fantasy! (and also a lot of fanart).

Links: Portfolio/Socials and Commission Info Print Shop

Yelena study (from reference)

Trying out a different painting method.

b/w sketch:

Portrait of Veil for the Cosmere RPG

AD: Johnny O'Neal

Lyn for the Cosmere RPG.

AD: Katie Payne and Johnny O'Neal

Don't have much to post right now so here are some old sketches

some studies of fabric/folds

more mouths/teeth from immagination this time (fantasy edition). Wanted to try applying some of what I learned from the studies I posted last time.

Process shots:

some mouth/teeth studies from photo reference

I still struggle to draw open mouths from imagination so this was some much needed practice.

Process shots:

Lift and Wyndle for the Cosmere RPG! This was the first ever piece of official Cosmere art that I did back in 2023.

AD: Johnny O'Neal

wtf. I've been going through my old posts (for tag organisation purposes) and I just realised I somehow forgot to post Scanlan's version of these sketches that I had done of VM years ago! 😱 I posted it everywhere else but not here for some reason 🤦‍♀️ Anyway, here it is... 2 years late.

(scroll down through my profile if you want to see the other characters, or go to the CR tag in my blog)

Bucky study from Civil War I've been on a bit of a Marvel high since Thunderbolts (which I absolutely loved) so I've been rewatching some of my favourite MCU movies.

(Sidenote: Sebastian Stan's likeness is really hard to get right for some reason wtf)

Finished version of the Shallan sketch that I had done a while back.

The sketch was originally fanart at the time, but a few months later I was asked to do a finished version of it for Brotherwise Games.

I don't advertise it often cause I'm not good at marketing myself, but for those that don't know, I do have a print shop. The above are just a few of the prints available. You can check out the rest in my shop over here!

Oh, I see the Cosmere RPG was just released digitally! Here's another illustration that I did for the game last year.

ADs: Katie Payne and Johnny O'Neal

Older portrait commission for @/senara that I never got around to posting

Work in progress. Not sure if I'll ever finish this one so I'm just gonna post it as is cause otherwise it'll probably end up never seeing the light of day again.

Some portrait studies I did a week ago from movies I've been watching lately. Didn't think to record any of these until the last one so you only get one timelapse sorry!