So I recently dusted off copies of the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix. Once again, I enjoyed them thoroughly, exciting and thrilling adventures in a vivid world of life and death. So, of course, it got the wheels in my head turning. So here’s what I came up, an illustration of Lirael in death. Honestly though, my sketchbook was becoming inhabited by sketches from this world before I started the piece so it was only a matter of time.