Thank you! It started with what appeared to be a shoulder and just grew in its own way from there. I've not used the aqua graphite much, but I do really like their subtleness.

Thank you! This is one of those times where the photograph is actually much nicer than the original in the way it shows up the contrast of the wrinkly texture!

I'm glad you think so, thank you!

Yay! Thank you ♡

Oh, your comment made me realise I didn't explain the matryoshka pathway, that was also just happy accident: "A wrong interpretation" first made me think of something funny, like Aegnor having gone to the trouble to pick her some rare beautiful flowers, which she receives with delight and, to his dismay, promptly tosses them into a large pot of bubbling liquid! (She's dying yarn, and when mixed with the herb she's already using, Aegnor's flowers give the dye a richer hue.)

On my way to ask the Internet to remind me which flowers I was thinking about, I stopped by the #instadrabbling channel, and I was promptly diverted by Dawn's "Lost in memory".

So, when I returned to my sketch, the pot turned into Balan's book of lore and her thoughts turned to his note that "Nóm protests that I’ve recalled it poorly and we are Children of the Sun, not of the Dark."

So maybe that's why it has mixed vibes.

(And I still can't remember the flower — when mixed with yarrow it makes it a deeper, more vibrant green.)

Thanks for you comment!

Thanks so much for commenting. I'm so glad this appeals to you.  I think a sort of calm sadness permeates so many of the character's lives, in between allthe great events.

Haha! That hair escaped both of us! She closed her eyes while I was drawing and really, I my pencil was just doing what she told me to. So glad you like this, thank you!

Thank you!  But Omg, the idea of Aegnor sketching her face over and over is utterly wrenching! (And sending hugs to you too!)