This is concept art for my original novel The Winter Legacy: Awakening. This is for a specific scene in chapter fifteen (though it's not spoilerific really, so I've had it as a picture on my website for a while).

A fantasy story set in the real world of present day California, about a girl who finds out that magic exists...

You can read the story
... at my website: [link]

...at FictionPress: [link]

The picture was drawn by hand and colored in Photoshop. I did it a while ago, so my skills weren't quite at the level that they are now


Spoiler below

Part of the scene

She reached out and grabbed Cecily’s hand in her own. The moment she did, blinding, white-hot light surrounded them. Natalie’s eyes stayed trained on Cecily, nothing but Cecily, even as her eyes watered and she wanted nothing but to close them. A roaring wind built around them, deafening. Sensations unlike anything else ran through Natalie’s body—