This is a back-dated post! In 2016 I went back through my old sketchbooks and “rescued” a lot of my old, lost artwork, and I’m slowly getting them re-added to my archives.
Here are two earlier versions of Jess’ character, Riz Aelle! I have a finished piece elsewhere here in my archives — but I’ve lost the finished versions of these older ones. I’m also not totally sure when they were done but they look like late 98 maybe very early 99.