The Operative

Prismacolor; Micron pen outlines; Tombow marker as an underlayer for the skin tones. On bristol vellum, approx. 15"x10". Reference image is this amazing photo by  .

He's the leader of pre-industrial Vulcanoid civilization on an unaligned planet. She's a Romulan operative sent to his planet to pave the way for an Imperial takeover. Their romance is about to become complicated. He insists that he will never bow the knee to invaders, but she's not worried. She's a Romulan. It's her destiny to get whatever she wants--both militarily and personally.

From a story idea first proposed by LornaWinters, in the Comments section of this drawing. The idea was further developed by thymetoread in this work.

(Or, these are simply two elves, if you prefer. Watch out for those knives. This is not a good time to interrupt these two.)

But, whew! This was a lot of work. It took several weeks off and on to finish it, what with drawing and re-drawing to try to get the anatomy right, fixing mistakes, doing color tests, and so forth. In the end, I'm happy with the results, although it's apparent that my technique still needs improvement in some areas. (I'm always open to suggestions or critiques.) I've also decided that colored pencil is even more unforgiving, in some ways, than watercolor.

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