This is a work in progress - of the largest and most complicated commission I have ever worked on - at 18"x40" and with 46 characters.. (though I might be adding 2 more since the trees arent inked yet), this is 28 hours of work ^.^ whew! I'm looking forward to doing the color, too...

The piece depicts friends and family of the Chakats, who are having a "Farewell to Earth" party, in an Australian forest clearing, as they prepare to leave the Earth, bound for Chakona... Unfortunately in order to make the scan such as all the characters in the back are easily visible, it would have had to be completely enormous, so this will have to do for the web for now ^.^. I'll be starting color on this pretty soon.

Characters are © Bernard Doove