How to Summon an Eel

I got new pastels!

So after a lot of angst and apparently a side-trip to Greece, my pastels have arrived, and now I’ve got no more excuses about the quality of my work - no more whining about the pastels being huge and soft and hard to manage; if I fuck up at this point, it’s ALL ME.

My first experiment with them was this fish-witch. Eelmage? Something like that. I’m already happy with the detail I can get out of it, but I’m also feeling a lot of impatience about some portions of it - it seems worthwhile to take a break from time to time when I feel myself getting impatient, so that I don’t rush.

I’m also looking at re-doing a few of the first pages of Sects, to make it more clear what’s happening and unify the style a bit. This is the first of those; it’ll go at the beginning of Chapter One, An Unfinished List of Rules.