Get inspired with this week’s Fantasy Art Wednesday, where fun fantasy artwork is combined with a writing prompt to get your creative juices flowing!

There’s something ominous about this castle, which seems to have been built inside of a ravine, or even perhaps a great hollowed out mountain. The air is freezing cold; icicles hang from the castle’s spires like giant daggers. Why are so many birds circling? Are they seeking prey…or perhaps carrion?  They could be spies, watching for any who might trespass here, and crying out warning to whomever is lord or lady of the castle. Into the sides of the surrounding cliffs, I swear I see faces looking out. Gleaming skulls, silently warning me to stay away. Unless I have already come too far, and there is no longer any way back. Turn now, and flee while you can…or find the entrance and take your chances. What adventure awaits? Only you can know…

Artwork by Jan-Patrik Kransy