Aurora Australis

I've been getting into drawing into never-ending lockdown (I've posted some before - all D&D character art, as I started out with the Critical Role Pub Draw show, then started also drawing characters from High Rollers). But I don't have a scanner, and getting the lighting to work and the colour balance looking okay on photographs can be tricky (or I lack skill and patience with photographing it, also a possibility ;) ). Then I started thinking, can I use GIMP to make the paper background less noticeable / the actual drawing stand out more? Or even remove the background altogether? And one thing led to another, and next thing I knew I had spent three days colouring! Yes, I am in fact very familiar with the concept of "project scope creep", believe it or not :P But I've been having a lot of fun with it, and I really like how the two I've done so far have turned out, so here they are!

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Title: Speak Low
Fandom: High Rollers (Aerois campaign)
Rating: G
Length: 1616 words
Content notes: Set during Episode 39 (uses dialogue from it), spoilers through that episode. Title comes from Much Ado About Nothing (‘Speak low if you speak love’).
Author notes: For the "heart" challenge at fan_flashworks. Inspired by this tumblr post which I have been thinking about for days... There were some very interesting RP choices in that scene, from Tom bringing up the ritual in the first place to Kim and Katie deciding that's what Nova and Aila would remember and think to tell him about!
Summary: Newly returned to the living, Quill has some questions.

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