some sketches

where we must be, when we must be, who we must be

3/5 interior illustration for Assassin’s Quest!!

Making a series of illustrations for The Assassin’s Quest to expand my portfolio, here is the first one (out of five)!! I was planning to illustrate The Fool’s Fate since that it’s my favorite of all but my CPTSD got worse recently and I got more emotionally invested in TAQ, specifically trauma related scenes. I really liked(?) how Hobb described the state the Fitz was in after all the torture and tormenting, his desire for escapism, dissociations, night terrors and flashbacks, which leaves him so empty, so confused and lost. In this illustration I tried to show exactly that. The objects around illustrate how other people perceive him (objects on the left are some that could belong to stable boy, while those on the right would belong to an assassin), and the mirror is a reflection of his inner perception of himself (I’ll leave it up to you how to interpret it). The mirror is slightly covered, showing just a glimpse of his reflection, which shows that Fitz is protective over his identity and emotions, afraid to show his true self to other , and ,at this point of the book, he’s even afraid to show it to himself.