The Morning Hunt

So I started this piece in January, and then Games Workshop came up and I sorta forgot about it for a bit.

The idea behind it is taking typical fantasy elements, in this case fairies, and putting them in different environments and thinking about what they'd be like. I was listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcast about the Mongols, and I started thinking about how our traditional fantasy races and creatures would survive in the Eurasian Steppe, which is where the Mongols originated from. I started off with fairies, and always had the idea of them hunting something. Often they're associated with being one with nature, but in this piece I wanted to them to be at odds with nature, or at least see nature as just something to be gained from (food, movement, etc). I then had the idea to put them on birds. The Mongols pretty much lived with their horses, and so I thought a cool idea would be to have these fairies do the same, but with birds.