Annika and The Pier

For The Bards College Collaboration Contest at The-Bards-College

I worked with Lesliewifeofbath and painted her OC Annika from her lovely but harrowing story 'Annika and The Pier'. Find it here: Annika and the Pier
“Are we all packed up, Julan?”
“Aye, love. We’ve loaded up all our ill-gotten gains from Ald-Daedroth.  Annika, I swear there’s enough here to feed the Ahemmusa for a year.”
“Idiots. I love it when stupid people wear expensive armor.  So, we have at least six hours to kill while you steer our little ship to safety through the Inner Sea.  What shall we talk about?”
“You could tell me a story…about your life…about Anvil.”
*Silence.*
“Anni?”
“Julan, you know I hate talking about that.”
“Look, you know everything about me, about my bastard birth, my crazy mother—well pretty much everything.”
 “It’s pretty gory. I guess you should know everything before we marry.  I probably should have told you this sooner.”
“Nothing you tell me could ev

This was an entirely new challenge for me since Leslie had a very clear image in her mind of how she wanted Annika to look. It was interesting and I learned a lot trying to blend her vision with my own. It was fun. Thank you Leslie for letting me play with your character.