This image probably took me 40+ hours of straight sitting in front of it to finish this. It's been the most slowly-progressing thing I've ever drawn (or at least the slowing thing I can REMEMBER drawing) and I am exceedingly sick of looking at it. I started this about 2 months ago, at the end of August and then school started and disrupted everything. I also tossed this aside to draw my Blood Elf for the Blizzard contest. But for the last two weeks I have spent my weekends mainly forsaking friends and worrying about this drawing, trying to finish it lol. In general, I enjoy how it ended up, which is very different than how I first set out.

Originally, this was going to be a drawing of Mathisen clad in monk-garb and furs amidst a blizzard in the middle of a forest. This was to go along with the story I write called Kreuzfahrer. But then I decided to draw all three of the characters I've come up with so far by adding Michael and Gabriel. I wanted to do something very dynamic but poor planning refused that and so this is fairly static. Michael turned out vastly different than how I wanted.

In all, the desire to simply be done with this pushed me to compromise and about 10 seperate things I wanted to do/add got tossed aside. So you get what you see and I think it turned out alright.

The best part of it all is that with the finishing of this new picture, I get to write more story. I like to include an illustration with each bit I pen. The next thing I draw will probably be a bit simpler to complete. But hopefully I've learned enough from the undertaking of this to more quickly execute something else.

Right, well I'm rambling. Hopefully you guys like it.

Characters are Gabriel(top), Michael(left) and Mathisen(right).

Stats are: 40+ hours of sitting in front of this occasionally working on it and done completely in .3 mechanical pencil, H and HB lead.

Characters devoted to my brother Jeigh: