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Konsi made these sending stones herself, with the Forgeringer (it lets her make magic items.)
Yes, it takes longer than a day to make Sending Stones - even with the artifact hammer a pair of sending stones takes her about ten days. She'd already made them before being asked on the date, but had been too nervous to show Razira.
Yeah, the majority of these sheets are A5 - if I drew a lot larger, then the "texture" would get "smoothed out" a bit and it'd look flatter - but more importantly, the larger I draw, the more page I have to cover with my pencils...
One big downside of this is that, I'm limited with how much detail I can get into these small panels - when you look at background details (like books on a bookshelf) they always look a bit scrabbly and wonky, because I'm drawing so tiny I can't really make them detailed or neat. One "upside" of drawing this small is that the format limits the amount of raw time I can spend adding detail, because there's a physical limit to what I can achieve at this scale. I draw a little larger for character art and the like, but I don't really draw anything bigger than A4.
What I do do is, I scan at a very high DPI, so when it hits the computer it's very large - this means if I correct things digitally, the shrinking of the image sort of "covers it up" a bit. (also see my other reply here about the push brush I use.)