Fantasy Character Artwork for "Unbegotten Tides Chapter 5"

My main goal with this illustration was to bring out the expressions of the characters and make them feel alive. I did this by doing all of the line art and the expressions by hand. I modeled the leather book and posed the characters in 3D, but the rest was done in vector. It took a lot of tweaking to not only make the characters feel lively, but also have the correct expressions depicted in scene from the chapter.You can read the story this illustration is featured in for free here: https://unbegottentides.webstoryworld.com/Chapters