Concept Art and Sketches!

Because oh boy, were there a lot!

Initial ideas for style and coloring. You can see two early ideas for two different areas and times of day.
Originally, the second half was going to be a chase into a forest, but it ended up being a pretty contained fight as I wrote it No "forest cut" exists, but I did end up reusing the trees in this arc and a lot of other art.

Deciding inking, coloring, shading, bubbling, liquifying, etc.

Cover Mockups! There were finished after the whole arc was done, so I drew a lot from the last few pages for color inspiration. The initial sketches (visible at the very bottom) were done during the inking phase.

Color Scripts (how different contexts would be colored/lit)

Sketched Pages

In case you care about that step.
If not, there's even more concept art farther down.
A couple panels were actually redrawn as I moved to the inking phase, but not too many. Also, do not ever EVER do all your sketches without planning where every panel edge will be, I had to move everything around MULTIPLE TIMES to make it all consistent