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-THE EMPERORS MAGIC-by *killskerry

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more.

When he bears his teeth, winter meets its death
And when he shakes his mane, we will have spring again.
~C.S. Lewis

This is an illustration from the chapter actually titled "Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time" found in C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" first of the Narnia Chronicles.
This is when he is making a deal with the White Witch exchanging his own life for that of the traitor Edmund.

Personally....I think this is the best painting I have ever done to date.
It took me a long time to get to a point where I could even dream of making something like this. Inspired by the movie coming out in December and in need of childrens book illustrations for my portfolio I decided to finally make the picture of Aslan I've always wanted to. I have read and re-read the Narnia books and this one is probably my fav. I tried to really capture just one small moment of it.

There are little juicy details all over the place so I suggest a fullview.
PS/OC....lots of time.

EDIT- Wow DD I'm so excited! Thank you silentkitty and Ntopp! Also everyone who is leaving such lovely comments and favs I can't thank you enough.

Just So it isn't repeated over and over I know that the magicians nephew is first chronologically however lion witch and wardrobe was published first (in some printings it even says book 1 on the actual cover) and Magicians nephew was published later on. C.S. Lewis did this purposefully to release the actual orgins of Narnia after you became familiar with Aslan and some other characters. I really think Magicians Nephew and Lion,Witch and Wardrobe are the best of the entire series and its almost like a pleasant suprise to save the very first for the very last.

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-THE EMPERORS MAGIC- by ~killskerry is a beautifully rendered illustration from a well known story. Make sure you fullview or you'll miss all of the little details! ( Suggested by ~ntopp and Featured by `silentkitty )

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~skeletonjackpumpkin Oct 14, 2011

awsum aslan is looking like he is about to say "are you done with your rant yet?"

~LinkxNabooru4ever Feb 19, 2011

Very good! What medium did you use?

~kelilaurel Jul 10, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, this is seriously awesome. You made Jadis look so wicked.

~smilelove Dec 18, 2008

beautiful art work i love it

the lion , the witch, and the wardrobe is not the first
book in the Narnia chronicles

!Goldy-Gry Aug 8, 2008

Oh! That's really beautiful... Love the colouring, the expressions! Though, there's something a little wrong with Aslan's paws... 8/ I can't quite understand what exactly.

~snowstorm358 Jun 6, 2008

I really like how you did the Witch. It's like she's yelling her head off and Aslan's just...get it over with, I'm gonna win anyway....GOOD JOB!

~HodmadodCreations Apr 10, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

this is how i always imagined this scene from the book, and how i always saw the witch looking like.

*Perrydotto Feb 17, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Beautiful work! I like how clean you kept the colors!

~Raifie Nov 13, 2007

they both look superb, especially Aslan

ummm, would it be okay if i use this at some point for a desktop image and submit a screenshot of it as my desktop-if not, its cool.
bye bye

P.S. Sorry its taken me so long to comment

~CMDay Nov 10, 2007

fabulous.

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