An illustration of a scene near the end of the first act of my current draft of my next project to feature the adventures of Arofa Nahmat, currently titled "The Tower of Last Hope."

In the depicted scene, Nahmat pursues the fading soul of a pack member who performed a forbidden healing spell, and was subsequently seized by a fatal, life-draining force. Nahmat, of course, ain't having none of it. Not without following her packmate into his own mind to pick a fight with the malicious phantasm causing it.

I started drawing this on May 28th, and have been working on this little by little each day since. Partly to put Clip Studio Paint through it paces, and partly to learn how to pant scenes, period. I'll probably be making better pieces than this even faster in the future, but for now, I'm pleased with the results. As for CSP itself, it's a godsend to finally have an painting program with decent paintbrush, flood-fill and selection tools, but unfortunately it's much slower, and has pretty fiddly color management, due to its poor integration with OSX. I may end up just finding a way to set up photoshop with good paintbrushes, and suffer its bad wand and paint bucket.