Ilyana in the Afterworld

I have a bit of a problem, in that I basically never draw on a regular basis. The only time I sit down at the table is when I am trying to get an actual comic done… I have almost totally lost touch with sketching, or doing a drawing for its own sake. I’m a little worried about this trend, I am sure that my “skills” are suffering a bit for it. Plus, my illustration portfolio over on francois-vigneault.com is looking a bit spare, populated with a lot of older pieces… and that’s not gonna help me get any of that filthy freelance illustration lucre. Anyways, I am trying to get into drawing for drawing’s sake again… so hopefully there will be more little drawing postings soon.

This is a character and scene from my submission for Elfworld Vol. 2, but more tightly drawn than I would for the comic… I’m quite happy with it; I am working on some colors for it, too… just to get more practice doing that. I’ve been trying to get “good hair” in my drawings for awhile, and think I’ve got something good here. It just takes a lot of patience, more than I can usually muster! I love drawing this swords and sorcery stuff.