I’m pretty sure that giving dialogue to minor characters (like Reshma and Gheen) is breaking some vitally important cardinal rule of storytelling.
Also, since you have been such a fantastic audience, please enjoy some Ivan Bilibin, who is one of my foremost artistic inspirations (which would mean more if I could draw better, but still, there it is).
I love the clothing patterns here. This looks like something Moebius would draw.
If only I could make my villains look half this great.
A knight in blue. Look at that nifty bow-holding thingy.
So that’s a quick tour of Ivan Bilibin, an amazing artist.
So beautiful! I love how fairy-tale the shadowless, flat-color and true line illustrations can look. I still think you could experiment with this style, more, eliminating the shadow, reducing the line width, hand-picking gradient colors and separating them with outlines.
Right now I think you’re straddling two very different styles. This, and something more like Mignola’s expressive, inky and shadowful style. But it’s not a bad style for what you’re doing. It’s relatively transparent, which works well for wordy, involved, dramatic sequential art, as opposed to the still-life of fairy tale illustration or the unwordy, mostly-mood style of so many blown-out floppy comics.