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Malee Fantasy Art Digital illustration mixed with extreme generative AI
Digital painting and comic

Midnight, smoke, and a little too much confidence. 🌑🔥- no fantasy today -This piece started as a digital painting in Kri...
14/10/2026

Midnight, smoke, and a little too much confidence. 🌑🔥
- no fantasy today -
This piece started as a digital painting in Krita and was refined through a local generative AI workflow with my own custom models. I wanted the image to feel like a still frame from a story nobody has told yet. The palette stays cool with steel blues and slate grays, broken up by warm red embers in the background that hint at something burning just out of sight. The smoke curls around the figure to add motion to an otherwise frozen moment.

For this version I pushed the background into near-black to create a true night atmosphere. Stripping away the environment made the lighting and textures carry more of the mood, and it became an experiment in how much darkness a composition can hold before it loses its shape.

What do you see in this scene? Is it a rooftop, a ruined city, or something else entirely? I’d love to hear your interpretation in the comments. 👇

They call them UNBREAKABLE. ⚔️🌿Sisters. Warriors. Back-to-back against the whole jungle.This is my latest fantasy illust...
12/10/2026

They call them UNBREAKABLE. ⚔️🌿

Sisters. Warriors. Back-to-back against the whole jungle.

This is my latest fantasy illustration study - focusing on dynamic anatomy, strength and light.

I wanted to explore a classic Sword & Sorcery duo: two different fighting styles, two different physiques, one unbreakable bond. Inspired by the greats like Frazetta and Vallejo, but with my own take on powerful, athletic heroines.

PROCESS / TECHNIQUE:
This was created with my mixed technique: initial composition and pose exploration with AI as a digital sketchbook, then full manual repaint, anatomy correction, armor design and jungle lighting all hand-painted in Krita. About 50% is traditional digital painting.

It's an artistic study of movement, back muscles, and cinematic rim-light through foliage.

Question for you adventurers - if you had to step into the jungle with them, would you choose the dual curved blades or the spiked mace?

If you're new here, I'm Malee - I paint dark fantasy warriors, myths and monsters every week. Follow for the next character study.

Save this for your next barbarian / fighter D&D inspiration.

Would you kneel, or would you fight? ⚔️Meet the White Warden — EXPERIMENT #23This is part of my new mixed workflow seri...
11/10/2026

Would you kneel, or would you fight? ⚔️

Meet the White Warden — EXPERIMENT #23

This is part of my new mixed workflow series. I started with a rough AI blockout for pose and composition, then did a full manual overpaint in Krita — every piece of armor, the folds of the cloak, the lighting and that blue spellfire were hand-painted and refined.

For me, AI is not the final image. It's just a new kind of sketchbook. The art direction is still 100% mine.

I'm still writing her lore. Is she the last guardian of a fallen order, or a battle-mage who chose the spear over the staff?

What story do YOU see in her?

If you're new here — I'm Malee, I create dark fantasy warriors, goddesses and monsters. I post a new experiment like this every week.

Follow along if you want to see how far this technique can go. And save this if you need inspiration for your next D&D / RPG character ✨

⚔️ She’s NOT finished... but I couldn’t keep her hidden any longer.This is experiment #2 with my new color & shading wo...
06/10/2026

⚔️ She’s NOT finished... but I couldn’t keep her hidden any longer.

This is experiment #2 with my new color & shading workflow.

Mixed technique: AI base + intense digital overpainting. Armor, skin, sword, fabrics - almost everything you see here has been repainted by hand. I'm trying to get that soft parchment glow but with sharper steel reflections.

She's still a WIP because I'm currently fighting with 2 other pieces that are way more complicated than this one. So I’m pausing here for now.

Curious to hear from you - what catches your eye first?

I can't decide for the final version: should I keep this clean, light background to make her pop, or go darker and grittier, full battlefield mode?

Drop your honest thoughts below, it really helps me push the next one. 👇

Save it if you want to see the final version later. I’ll post the evolution.

This one fought me. In a good way. ⚔️I've been experimenting with a new palette - softer, almost watercolor washes, icy ...
04/10/2026

This one fought me. In a good way. ⚔️

I've been experimenting with a new palette - softer, almost watercolor washes, icy blues against burnt reds and bone white. A total departure from my usual high-contrast dark fantasy.

The process: This is my hybrid workflow. AI for the initial concept / composition, then full manual overpaint - 100% hand-painted digital painting, light, shading, textures, and all the color grading in Photoshop.

The goal was to keep the power and sensuality of a classic Demon Queen, but make her feel more ethereal, less heavy.

I'm not 100% sure I nailed it yet, so I need your eyes.

Two questions for you:
1. This softer palette vs. my classic dark & saturated style - which do you prefer? 2. What would YOU name her? The best name gets featured in my next lore post.
If you want to see more color experiments like this, save this post - it helps me a lot.

Art by Malee - 2026

⚔️ NEW ILLUSTRATION - Guardian of the Ember BladeExploring dual light sources in fantasy character design.This original ...
30/09/2026

⚔️ NEW ILLUSTRATION - Guardian of the Ember Blade

Exploring dual light sources in fantasy character design.

This original fantasy illustration is a study in storytelling through light and color.

Workflow / Process Note: You might recognize her - this is a returning character I designed a few posts back. This piece was created with a mixed technique: initial concept exploration with AI tools, followed by extensive manual digital painting, overpainting, and light compositing in Krita. All final lighting, textures and details are hand-painted.

I wanted to push the contrast between two completely different light temperatures:
1. Cool Daylight: The soft blue ambient light from the cave opening to create depth and atmosphere.
2. Warm Fire Light: The intense, emissive glow from the enchanted blade. Painting how fire reflects on skin and metal is always a challenge - I worked a lot on subsurface scattering and sharp specular highlights.

For the character concept, I focused on a powerful, athletic guardian archetype. Dynamic low-angle composition, strong anatomy and a sense of motion right before action. The design of the armor and weapon is inspired by classic sword & sorcery illustration.

This is a full digital painting, original character from my 2026 fantasy series.

Fellow artists - what's your workflow for combining tools in Krita? And what's the hardest part for you when painting fire / emissive light?

Save this for your lighting / anatomy reference folder if you find it useful.

Original Fantasy Illustration by Malee Fantasy Art - 2026

A big thanks to new followers (sorry image is a repost)💎 Alexander Schmid, Vickie Dailey, Raimo Luoto, Apostolis Kiritsi...
30/09/2026

A big thanks to new followers (sorry image is a repost)💎 Alexander Schmid, Vickie Dailey, Raimo Luoto, Apostolis Kiritsis, Amadeo Pardo Herraiz, Johnny Ray Hubbard, Samuel Santiago, Roy Snodgrass, Roland Egger

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The owl did not say "He's ready." He did not say "Don't trust him." 🦉He said: "It's time to come home."The Lightkeeper c...
29/09/2026

The owl did not say "He's ready." He did not say "Don't trust him." 🦉
He said: "It's time to come home."
The Lightkeeper closed her eyes. A thousand years of guarding the Veil, and no one had ever offered her a way back.
But home is not a place. It is a promise she made before the first star fell. And she cannot keep it alone.
So she raised her hand, and the Veil began to open.
Behind it, a light she had almost forgotten. Warm. Familiar. Waiting.
She has one question for the one who called her:
Will you step through with her? ✨
A) Yes, I'm not afraid
B) Only if she tells me the truth first
C) I'll stay and guard the Veil in her place
Tell me in the comments. I read every single one, and Chapter 3 will follow the most voted choice.
If you felt the Veil stir, you're already part of this story.
I paint one new world every day. Follow so you don't miss what happens next.
Save this for when you need a little light tonight. 🌙

The forest only glows when SHE walks through it. ✨🦉They call her the Last Lightkeeper.For a thousand years, she has guar...
28/09/2026

The forest only glows when SHE walks through it. ✨🦉

They call her the Last Lightkeeper.

For a thousand years, she has guarded the Veil between worlds, with only her white owl to remember her name.

Tonight, she finally heard a human heart calling for magic again. Yours.

What do you think the owl is whispering to her?

A) "He's ready"
B) "Don't trust him"
C) "It's time to come home"

Tell me in the comments — I read every single one and I will write the lore for the most voted answer.

If you felt that little chill down your spine, you belong here.
I paint one new world like this every day. Follow to not miss the next one.

Save this for when you need a little light tonight. 🌙

Ok little update. System restored, data, images and my models saved.All I need to do is reinstall painting software 🥶
24/09/2026

Ok little update. System restored, data, images and my models saved.All I need to do is reinstall painting software 🥶

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