A Little Trove

As I was sifting through old stuff I found a drawing I did for a contest years ago. I ended up not participating in the contest because I didn't want to subrogate my copyrights (why would an artist want to do that?!). :/
Anyways, the drawing was one of my first attempts at using Copic markers. So I thought you might be interested in that. (Of course this is not the very origin of my art, but it is one of the milestones in getting to the point where I'm at now -- and I'm still in the process of improving.) I called this picture 'Empress'. Here it is: