Cherriielle

Ella Poworoznik (born on January 3, 2001 in Alberta, Canada), credited as Cherriielle professionally, is a Canadian artist. She created two variant covers for the third and eighth issues of the 2023 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. The comics were written by Daniel José Older released as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase III on February 14 and August 7 of 2024, respectively.
Poworoznik also created the cover artwork for the one-shot comic The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular, which released on December 18, 2024, and is set to contribute as an artist to the 2025 reference book Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded by Amy Ratcliffe. She is a longtime Star Wars fan, having been brought to the attention of Lucasfilm via her artwork on Twitter. The artist also often draws Star Wars artwork for fun, friends, or other commission work, including one piece done for the design of the Jedi Ruu for Star Wars author Alyssa Wong.
==Biography==
===Cover milestones===
Ella Poworoznik, credited as Cherriielle professionally, is a Canadian artist. who was born on January 3, 2001 in Alberta, Canada. She created a variant cover for the third issue of the 2023 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. The issue was written by Daniel José Older, penciled by Harvey Tolibao, and released by Dark Horse Comics as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project'sThe High Republic Adventures (2023) 3 Phase III on February 14, 2024. Poworoznik later created a variant cover for the eighth issue of the same series. The issue was written by Older, illustrated by Tolibao, and released onThe High Republic Adventures (2023) 8 August 7 of the same year. She was first announced to be working on the cover on March 22, 2024, and the artwork for the issue was later released on April 16, after which she posted textless version of the artwork on Twitter.
Poworoznik created the primary cover artwork for The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular, a one-shot The High Republic Adventures comic-book. The issue was written by Older and published by Dark Horse Comics on December 18, 2024. She released the textless version of the cover on Twitter. Upon its release, Poworoznik expressed her pleasure at having been involved in the issue's creation. The artist is also set to contribute as an artist to the 2025 reference book Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded, authored by Amy Ratcliffe.
===Development, hiring, and other work===
Poworoznik is a longtime Star Wars fan, especially having enjoyed the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project, having enjoyed the latter project's inclusive nature of making Star Wars for everyone. She posted on Twitter about her wish to create a The High Republic cover on June 28, 2022, initially in jest. When multiple Star Wars creators supported her and linked the post—featuring an image of the Jedi Reath Silas and Cohmac Vitus—to others, the artist was contacted by Lucasfilm Story Group's Matt Martin, who sent her work to those working in Star Wars publishing. She then met with Disney–Lucasfilm Press's Michael Siglain at Celebration Europe hosted from April 7–10th 2023.
The artist was later hired to do a cover for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures in October of the same year, as Older wanted to work with her for a variant cover. Poworoznik was given a short list of sentence-long ideas to create sketches off of, and once one of those had been selected, she created the issue's artwork. She was particularly excited to illustrate the Mikkian Zeen Mrala, as she was one of her favorite characters. For the cover of The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular, Poworoznik expressed her gratitude to Older for allowing her to design the cover featuring Mrala and the human Lula Talisola's wedding dresses.
Poworoznik also often draws Star Wars artwork for fun, friends, or other commission work and cosplays as franchise characters at conventions. The artist takes particular inspiration from the work of Star Wars artists Grant Griffin and Corey Brickley. Star Wars author Alyssa Wong commissioned Poworoznik to create artwork of the Jedi-turned-vigilante Ruu's design and thanked Poworoznik for a piece inspired by The High Republic: Escape from Valo, a middle grade novel Wong had written with Older,The High Republic: Escape from Valo which was published on January 30, 2024. Poworoznik's Escape from Valo piece depicts Jedi Initiate Gavi in battle with the young Nihil Driggit Parse, Gavi's former best friend.
==Works==
===Bibliography===
Year	Title 	Contribution
2024	The High Republic Adventures (2023) 3 	Variant cover artist
2024	The High Republic Adventures (2023) 8 	Variant cover artist
2024	The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular	Cover artist
2025	Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded 	Artist
==Sources==
*The High Republic Adventures (2023) 3
*The High Republic Adventures (2023) 8
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 1 (Phase III)
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*The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 2 (Phase III)
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 3 (Phase III)
*Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded
==Notes and references==
==External links==
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Category:Comic book cover artists