Mountain Tortoise

In most worlds, of course, mountains are formed in the normal way, by buckling crust which is then eroded by wind and rain. On one particular world, however, geology works rather differently, and mountains accrete around a seed, like a pearl around a grain of sand. In this case, we see an infant mountain forming around one dismayed tortoise.

This was actually a style experiment--I started a watercolor, but instead of inking the linework, I went over the lines with a sepia watercolor pencil, then watercolored over the top. The end result gave it a little more outline than a normal watercolor, while still being much softer than inking the piece. So that was kinda cool.