Under the Bridge by @Crash (Charlie Stadele)

Iegies, my troll girl, standing under a bridge. Yes! Revel with me in my creativity! Revel!

Yes, the bridge looks pretty skimpy, but there is a reason for that. Two actaully. First, I'm not fully sure I could convincingly draw a real bridge from that angle. Second, I can rationalize having a rickety rope bridge there. Defense. You might notice the brige is running into a battlement-type protrusion. Yes, this valley has been sealed off, to keep those unrully trolls in place. Where the valley walls were not steep enough, stone walls were built. Access to valley is though gates in the wall, which open int rope bridges connecting to stair towers. Nice civilized trolls (like Iegies here. Notice the tag she keeps on her scarf) are allowed to pass through, while more unrully trolls can be kept in place by barricing the stair tower, barring the gate, or simply by cutting the rope bridge and letting them fall to thier well deserved demise.

I got on a coloring kick last week, and finished off four complete drawings. This is the first of the batch. Done in ink, then colored with Prismacolor pencils. The character in the piece was done with much care and detail, with everything being smoothed out with my oh-so-precious colorless blender. The background was done much rougher. Fewer color blends, less detail, etc. Just put down some lead to give a basic feel for the background. Used basically the same technique for all four works. This particualr drawing came out very crisp, but also very light. Barely any color at all on the valley walls. Unexpected, but not disapointing in the least.