Steve and I decided, once again, to create a couple of works on a similar theme. This time we chose to do a scene with multiple figures: an ambush that our characters had perpetrated in a recent Tribe 8 session. This was actually our first attempt at this kind of thing, and included another landmark in our artistic development: including animals and vegetation.
I chose the moment just before the ambush as my setting. Chigger, Cinder, and Bastion watch their quarry, a Tera-Sheban named Ariel, approach with her mounted Joanite guards. She suspects nothing.
I was more concerned, in this picture, about perspective, angles of approach, and the relative sizes on the page of closer and more distant objects, than with fine detail. I'm quite pleased with the result, especially the feeling of height in the vantage point of the protagonists overlooking the trail.
For the web, I digitally inverted the colour of the original drawing, for that deep, dark, creepy forest effect. Now it looks more like a print made from an etching.
Steve was brave enough to try an action scene. Here we see the chaotic melee that ensued shortly after the ambush had begun in earnest, Cinder laying down a hail of arrows while Chigger leaped out of the foliage to unhorse her first opponent. It was Bastion, however, who was first able to get his hands on our true target.
Cinder, in the foreground, is the acrobatic highlight of this piece; both the Joanite bearing down on her and his horse seem gleefully intent of having her for dinner! In the background, Bastion breaks Ariel's neck while Chigger tries to determine who she should stab next. A fallen guard lies before them, and you can just catch the tail end of our recent ally, Rolf, as he scrambles for safety.
I kept my digital meddling to myself this time, and let Steve's fine scratches speak for themselves, although I'm sure he did some editing of his own before I got my hands on the picture.