/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I am trying to figure out drawing fur,and how hair over fur should look.

Take these two characters.

Lissanna and Peter.

Lissanna lives in this rural backwater helping her mother run their inn. She dreams of adventure, and likes to pall pal with Jeremey and the Professor, where some will be around eventually.

Along comes Peter,a young conventional magic wielder, on the run from bounty hunters sent by an archmage he escaped from a few years ago. Every romantic entanglement he ever dared let develop has led to seemingly horrible deaths, or so he thinks he witnessed. In a much later storyline, all these seemingly dead girls somehow show up ,wanting to kick his ass for not trying to help them, because he sincerely believes that he saw them die. When they are all together badmouthing him,Jeremey goes outside to Peter,and sees him crying. Jeremey attempts to console him, but Peter is crying because he didn't kill them and this guilt wearing him down has freed them. And he suddenly ambushes the next bounty hunter,and demands to be taken to the archmage. Until this time,far in the future,Peter is deathly afraid of getting involved with anyone, because of this threat hanging over him that destroys anything that he cares about. Reason enough, and noble,but Lissanna isn't convinced. She will love him anyway. And in this pencil grind,I tried to capture that argument.

For me,it's the mystery of what will appear next under my pen. The art fuels the story and the story fuels the art.

This actually.

I am currently struggling with relearning to draw in pencil again after over a decade using ballpoint pens,and did this just now. There is a story behind this scene, an ongoing subplot of anguish on both sides, and heartbreaking at its core.