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"I had a mission," Gmork said reluctantly.
"You too?"
Atreyu looked at the werewolf with interest, almost with sympathy.
"Were you successful?"
"No. If I had been, I wouldn't be lying here chained. Everything went pretty well until I came to this city. The Dark Princess, who ruled here, received me with every honor. She invited me to her palace, fed me royally, and did everything to make me think she was on my side. And naturally the inhabitants of this Land of Ghosts rather appealed to me, they made me feel at home, so to speak. The Dark Princess was very beautiful in her way -- to my taste at least. She stroked me and ran her fingers through my coat. No one had ever caressed me like that. In short, I lost my head and let my tongue get out of hand. She pretended to admire me; I lapped it up, and in the end I told her about my mission. She must have cast a spell on me, because I am ordinarily a light sleeper. When I woke up, I had this chain on me. And the dark princess was standing there. "Gmork," she said. "You forgot that I too am one of the creatures of Fantastica. And that to fight against Fantastica is to fight against me. That makes you my enemy, and I've out-smarted you. This chain can never be undone by anyone but me. But I am going into the Nothing with all my menservants and maidservants, and I shall never come back."
Then she turned on her heel and left me...."

Ok so... Gmork and Maya, the Dark Princess, from Michael Ende's novel "The Neverending Story". Gmork has been one of my childhood nightmares, I was terrified everytime he appeared on the screen, and still now I can't watch the movie because of that.
Anyway, when I read the book, I completely adored the story of this character. I mean, the evil guy who falls in love for an evil princess... who is not that evil, since she wants to preserve her world from the evil. It's such a sad story!
So I wanted to draw Maya and Gmork... Since Fantasia (or Fantastica) is not an human world, I imagined the princess with human features but I enjoyed playing with colors for her.

Gmork, Maya (c) Michael Ende

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"I had a mission," Gmork said reluctantly.
"You too?"
Atreyu looked at the werewolf with interest, almost with sympathy.
"Were you successful?"
"No. If I had been, I wouldn't be lying here chained. Everything went pretty well until I came to this city. The Dark Princess, who ruled here, received me with every honor. She invited me to her palace, fed me royally, and did everything to make me think she was on my side. And naturally the inhabitants of this Land of Ghosts rather appealed to me, they made me feel at home, so to speak. The Dark Princess was very beautiful in her way -- to my taste at least. She stroked me and ran her fingers through my coat. No one had ever caressed me like that. In short, I lost my head and let my tongue get out of hand. She pretended to admire me; I lapped it up, and in the end I told her about my mission. She must have cast a spell on me, because I am ordinarily a light sleeper. When I woke up, I had this chain on me. And the dark princess was standing there. "Gmork," she said. "You forgot that I too am one of the creatures of Fantastica. And that to fight against Fantastica is to fight against me. That makes you my enemy, and I've out-smarted you. This chain can never be undone by anyone but me. But I am going into the Nothing with all my menservants and maidservants, and I shall never come back."
Then she turned on her heel and left me...."

Ok so... Gmork and Maya, the Dark Princess, from Michael Ende's novel "The Neverending Story". Gmork has been one of my childhood nightmares, I was terrified everytime he appeared on the screen, and still now I can't watch the movie because of that.
Anyway, when I read the book, I completely adored the story of this character. I mean, the evil guy who falls in love for an evil princess... who is not that evil, since she wants to preserve her world from the evil. It's such a sad story!
So I wanted to draw Maya and Gmork... Since Fantasia (or Fantastica) is not an human world, I imagined the princess with human features but I enjoyed playing with colors for her.

Gmork, Maya (c) Michael Ende