NaNoWriMo 2011 - mood/concept sketches

This year for NaNoWriMo, I'm rewriting my plot from 2009, thus making 2011 the year of It's Raining In Chicago Redux.

To get in the mood and plan a bit (and to avoid panicking and deciding on the spot to write silly Final Fantasy IX-fanfiction instead), I'm doing a couple of sketches.

Abarat-fanart+sketchdump

I've recently read Abarat, and it's two sequels Days of Magic, Nights of War and Absolute Midnight, and got into the fanart-y mood.


First up, the girl from Marapozsa Street, "A woman was studying at an upper window with her hair like a thicket filled with little coloured birds."


Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, whose nightmares escape from his brain and swim around his collar.



Leeman Vol, the Insect Man, whose entire person is home to a multitude of insects. "Sometimes they bit him, in the midst of their terrritorial wars, and often they burrowed into his skin to lay their eggs."


Malingo the Geshrat




Also, two sketched - I need to practise my inking skills; they've fallen into disuse lately.