story sketch: without fail [update: 07-27-2011]

[meeks]

This is a sketch of warsailor Brelig's encounter with a deathfin sea monster, from Without Fail, a new Torn World story by ysabetwordsmith:

Brelig swiped his sickle toward the bleeding eyelid again -- and the deathfin grabbed him by that arm, lifting him high above the ship. The sudden shock of pain frayed his concentration. Brelig swung in the air, blood raining everywhere. Then he pulled himself upward to swing the axe into the deathfin's eye.

cleaned-up sketch:


rough sketch:

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Question

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm uploading your sketches into a scrapbook on my LiveJournal, so that I'll have them all in one place for people to browse conveniently. I've got the before-and-after and detail images of "Unfolding Wings." But I realized that I forgot to save the early version of "Without Fail" -- and now I can only find the thumbnail, not the full-size of the original sketch. It would be nice to have the larger version of the sketch available from the thumbnail, because I like being able to flip back and forth to compare what changed. It's one of the cool things about your project.

Re: Question

[meeksp.livejournal.com]

Whups, missed this one...You've probably figured this out, by now, but if you right-click on the thumbnail to save it, you'll actually get the full-sized sketch - only the display dimensions have been changed.

Re: Question

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! Thanks for letting me know.

This is the gallery page for your sketches, if you want to see what I wrote about them.
http://pics.livejournal.com/ysabetwordsmith/gallery/00118spk