Twisted Plot Revision Page149

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The impact leaves Avora disoriented, her forehead throbbing as she works to raise it off the grass. Shaking the haze from her mind, the wizardess braces herself to climb back to her feet, struggling to come to terms with the forces of the garden that now seem to be closing in on all sides, with grass, tree, leaf, and blossom all shifting positions in the mists around her. Between her fingers, the needle-like blades seem to hum and wiggle against her flesh. Grimacing in pain and effort, Avora delivers a series of quick kicks to dislodge the squirming roots from her ankles before she looks to reclaim the wand. The slurping of the extrusive roots echoes about her flanks as the tankroot trees' extensions shift and release one clutching hold and find another.


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Finals are done. Art can proceed forth unobstructed once again. Of note here is an effort on my part to give Avora's face a "banged up" look. I think I probably overdid it, but the intent was to illustrate someone who just experienced a face plant in the grass. She's perhaps a little lightly bruised (too early to see much discoloration), and she's frustrated and angry and disoriented, and that's what we see here. I'll let it sit a while and see if I need to tone that down a little and smooth it out. I actually thought about showing her spitting out grass and dirt...

Avora was drawn once again from the wonderful reference material provided by Viator-Defessus and the model "Ava." Awesome images to work with!

Enjoy!

Note: Twisted Plot and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones this kind of treatment toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.