Storm Coming

This is a piece focusing on Mace, Whip, and Paige prior to events that occur in Volume 1. I was going for a kind of moody, happy, yet slightly dreary look. Like the title says, I also added some heavy wind and impending clouds.
I made this to have it as a spot illustration at the end of the first book, I think it should conclude things nicely.

I wanted this image to feel more like a traditional illustration, with that static frozen-in-time feel, so I did some hatching in the linework. Usually I try to have the characters use an animated style, like they were caught in mid-pose of an animated cartoon, but this piece was supposed to capture a different feeling.