City at night

This is a more detailed and larger version of the 'Alone in the Dark' illustration. It was intended as a sort of frontspiece for 'The Eye of the Storm', a work of fiction that I have been working on for some time and which there are extracts of in the Writing section of the site. It shows an early version of Teela Darkstalk making her way through the darkened streets of Draffe, the city in which she lives.

I was most intent on getting the effect of the lamplight on her face and clothes, so that she seemed to appear out of the surrounding darkness. In retrospect, I think I could have made the background darker still...

Pencil on cartridge paper.
43cmx29cm.

A figure holds a lantern up in the shadows of a bridge in a medieval, night-time city

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