Few Wheel of Time fan artists are as skilled at bringing the characters to life as this week's featured artist, Ashley Luttrell (a.k.a. PollyUranus). Her painstaking attention to technique allows her to create unique character portraits that practically step off the page.

Lan Mandragoran

I was dying to know more about her approach to digital painting, so I asked her about it. She told me she does all the sketching and painting directly on a graphics tablet. Although she used to do some photomanipulation, she now only uses photographs as references when developing character poses and proportions.

Faile Bashere

She often uses many references for a single piece to ensure the painting has a unique, original quality. She also makes all her own textures and her own special effects brushes, such as those used to create the print on Min's outfit below.

Min Farshaw

Given Ashley's mastery of light and composition, it will probably come as no surprise that she's a professional artist. (In fact, she is a professional face and body painter as well as a professional digital artist! Her art has been shown and sold in galleries and print shops from New York City to Berlin.) What may come as a surprise is that she is self-taught.

Nynaeve al'Meara

Although I love her Wheel of Time art (go here to see more!), her most impressive pieces to my mind are her varied and creative original works. Therefore, I'll end for once with some non-Wheel of Time art. I chose these two pieces because I think they really demonstrate her range as an artist.

The Broken Treaty

Malisha DeWalt

If you're curious to know more about her approach, this YouTube video shows the digital process for her painting The Broken Treaty (shown above), while this one shows her process for Prequel: The Broken Treaty. Watching these videos, I was really impressed by her manipulation of light, color, and composition, as well as her taste in music!