Quick Sketch of my main characters Ar-Tashk and Alaesia in a scene from my fic.
I really wanted to capture the intense, feral fear Alaesia was feeling during this chapter. She is engulfed in an all-consuming, oppressive darkness, threatening to swallow her up if she so much as blinks; the only escape she can fathom is her in gaze, hollow, intense, and hopeless.
And yet, Ar-Tashk, the trollish monster wrapping his arms around her to help her calm down, shares none of her foreign, human emotions. He looks down upon the puny, frail thing, lost in deep contemplation, sowing the seeds of doubt in the brutal, power-hungry life he has lived thus far.
(The scale difference between these two is probably exaggerated here to amplify the representation of Alaesia's feelings of being overwhelmed by this great hulking beast of an olog. Also because I suck at scale.)