In the den of the enemy . . .

Here’s an illustration I recently finished for Kendra Kandlestar and the Search for Arazeen.

This is a depiction of a pivotal scene in the book, one I talked about writing in a previous post. Here, Kendra finds herself inside the lair of her antagonist, Shuuunga the Unger witch.

I was originally going to make this a much more expansive illustration, as you can see in a photo of the unfinished version below:

Ultimately, I decided that the illustration just needed to concentrate on the two characters:

But I did love all Shuuunga’s witchly items, so I decided to turn them into a separate illustration:

Who knows . . . both the illustrations and the words may end up undergoing significant revision yet!