The Erl-King's Pale Daughter

"The Erl-King" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; it was translated into English by Sir Walter Scott, and you can find it here: www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/w…

I had originally intended something warmer and friendlier, but when I started rendering I realized the skin I used on the model had slightly odd shading and an all-but-imperceptible suggestion of a death's head to it. It is not yet raining. But she made me think of the Erl-King's Pale Daughter.

The scenery in this rendering involves some fairly old models, and it won't stand being enlarged because the low number of polygons starts to show: some items are a little too angular up close.