It's been a long time, graphite pencils

I'm glad to say I've been feeling a lot better this month.  I've been able to work more on Messenger, and got inspired to draw a pencil drawing of Emil's late father, the Desert King, Amir  (read the story thus far at messenger.thecomicseries.com).  It's been too long since I last worked in the medium, and it was awesome going back and working with pencils again.

Here's the progress of it over the past few days: