Doom Witch

This is my doom witch, the first illustration in my last sketchbook, what I like to call the Book of Bad Poetry. Conceptually, she was a main character in a somewhat sprawling fantasy story I started writing while in high school. She is a Light Elf Fire Mage who was sacrificing her sanity to cast a firestorm spell on a Dark Elf city for a reason that I never wrote far enough to realize.

I had this image in my head for a long time, and originally intended to complete the image with full values and colours, but I was lacking confidence to complete it with physical media, and too lazy to want to get into Photoshop again. I also determined at that point to complete one composition each session that I spent at what was at the time my new art venue, the Starbucks at 2100 Hurontario st.

The story that I was writing was an epic narrative to be called ‘The Story,’ and would occur across many books covering the life-spans and histories of a world literally split apart and the characters and many races and personalities of people therein trying to achieve a safe balance (and means) of co-habitation. It was to have such a framework that the Books would be referred to as Chapters and be centered on a certain character and be named by their family or house name and numbered chronologically to instances that name was titled (Shrake I, Shrake II, Learts I, Shrake III, Learts II)

I have the basic timeline and outline for much of the tale somewhere, and I did make some illustrations of the characters throughout the years, so more of that nonsense will show up in time with context-sensitive exposition.

• .1 Archive ink felt-tip pen

• 2mm Pencil (2H, 4H, B)