Summoning Morwen

“You call me here, to the heart of winter…
does my name only exist to be mocked?”

An illustration drawn in in blue ballpoint pen, then painted on top with inks, watercolours, and gouache. The illustration shows a small woman standing in a large empty room which overlooks snowy mountains. In the centre of the room, a snowflake is carved into the floor, and above it is billowing smoke, from which a face emerges. The face appears to be make of cracked volcanic rock, with magma visible in the cracks. The face looks down at the woman, about to speak.

It’s been a busy summer! This illustration is from June: another moment from our D&D campaign. This time of my character, Orla, summoning her warlock patron Morwen (who is also her hag – Orla is a hexblood) for a chat. I tried a new process on this one, and it got messy, but we persevered! The process was something like:

  1. Get the drawing down
  2. Ballpoint pen under drawing
  3. Some acrylic based ink for tones
  4. Wet washy vibrant inks for an underpainting
  5. Watercolour then gouache to refine

Overall, I like the texture from the ballpoint pen, though it was time consuming to draw!

Higher-res details plus some process pics below:

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