Project Dante

I started writing Canto III last night after skipping II for now. I just need to figure out what the crucial element of II is, I think it might be that Dante is told that Beatrice is the one who sent Virgil to lead him through the underworld and on to the purgatoria etc. Canto III is going well, I've just reached as far as Charon and the river Acheron and his curse and incantation.

This is is a fast marker sketch over pencil for the first page of Canto I. I scanned it inot photoshop and then dropped a multiply layer of a middle grey over it before cutting it back to get my light and dark. The only color will be small splashes of red, a little on Dante himself and in each of the animals eyes.