The Sentinel of Wells - Inks

Inks of an earlier sketch featuring Ellys Fenn, gnome explorer, and her khettu companion Ruadhán at the Sentinel of Wells.  Much of the places and things they explore are on the deeper, darker, and very forgotten depths and vistas of the world.  Places featuring strange 'Lewis Carroll-esque' landmarks with an abstract edifice that gives hints to incredibly ancient societies, but often ends up posing more questions than answers to what, who, or if anyone had constructed them.

Though Ellys likes the mystery.

She'd prefer to simply eat lunch and enjoy the strangely painted scene.

As a note, I'd like to apologize for being so quiet lately.  Things have been, frankly, not the greatest on this end.  There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes which I won't really go into, but the result has been being both physically and mentally wiped out most days of the week.  I've found creating anything was becoming a huge effort, and due to this whole COVID thing my anxiety and depressive disorders have been hanging over the whole scenario like writhing black cloud.

This isn't a 'woe is me' moment, I'll get through this.  But I did want to let folks know the reason I've been so detached from social visibility, art, and writing lately.  It became increasingly hard to really answer anyone back until I finally hit a point where I just had to take care of some things that were 'extra weight' before I escaped into the marble in my head, and before I could interact with all of you kind folks again.

I've managed to get a couple sketches under way that I'll share in short order, as well as a couple images to ink that will also soon follow.  I've picked some of the brighter/cheerier images to get lost in, and its very likely I'll be doing a colour treatment on two of them.  Whether they're paintings or just illustrative colour is still up in the air.

I have some 'world' stuff under way as well.  Maps and notes and writings about places that some of these images take part in.  I find its therapeutic in a sense to write and create a world where things make a bit more sense to me than the madness going on lately.  Its plunking a scaffolding on the wonderland, and making sure its foundation is solid.

I hope you are all safe, and healthy.

Keep the bright moments close.

-T.J.