I’ve been itching to push myself to paint something more illustrative, something I used to do a lot of. So, of course I turned to our Dungeons and Dragon’s campaign for inspiration. This is my friend’s character Willow, who narrowly avoided death-by-dragon-breath in a recent session.

There were some big trust-the-process moments here – the base layer for her face was a colourful mess of wet watercolours and I wasn’t sure it would all come together! It was fun to create a colourful face, even if the colours are from blood and bruises on-top of an already sallow complexion. See below for some of the messy in-progress moments.