Guardian

My favorite thing to draw right now is specific scenes and this was one scene I was particularly happy to draw. Poor Heather's had it rough for the entirety of CBST, but between Star's absence and the pain of her new spikes, she's just been driven to the very edge. Ember will always be there for her though. Her admirable steadfastness is only one of the reasons we all love her so much. 

This picture was really hard to draw for several reasons, but I'm amazed at how well it turned out. I always seek to challenge myself in my drawings and sometimes the result is not quite as good as I would have liked, but that didn't happen here. Besides the experimentation with perspective and poses, I also tried out something new in shading here; the highlights on Ember's armor. (This is also the first time I've drawn Ember's armor, so yay!) Shading with markers is particularly difficult because you first have to get a consistent first layer, but often the strokes will overlap and end up looking weird. That didn't really happen when I colored in Ember and I was super happy about that.