"While journeying across the treacherous mountains of Icewind Dale, Drizzt and his companions came upon the sad remains of an unfortunate traveller. The culprit, a huge yeti, was not happy to have its meal interrupted."

I'm a big fan of the Legend of Drizzt books by R. A. Salvatore, and have wanted to illustrate a proper battle scene with Drizzt and his friends for over a year. I finally got the time to do just that!

It was very challenging to work out the composition of the scene with so many characters, trying to keep it dynamic without being too cluttered, and I ended up using a circular pattern around the big Yeti to frame the chaos.

The burnished gold of his eyes seemingly captured all the light and warmth of the sun, gleaming with a softness that Moiraine did her best to ignore. They shone, seemingly flickered with a harden stubbornness now familiarized to the Aes Sedai. But there was a gentleness, too, a kindness not unlike the beating warmth of a inn’s hearth. Though, she knew that at any moment, in a flare of agitation, they could burn hot like a forge, raging with sparks that left flecks in those peculiar eyes...

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Just...just look at these cuties. I love them so much.

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Perrin Aybara - by Manweri