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Description
This fellow here is Pious Augustus, a character in the videogame 'Eternal Darkness' developed by Silicon Knights and released by Nintendo for Gamecube in year 2002. It's an old game, I know, but I still love it.

For those who don't know anything about this....

About the game:

To summarize, it's a mix between Lovecraft and Melmoth the wanderer by Charles Maturin (jackpot!! I love both!) While we have on one side the Ancients (what HPL named Old Ones) and Pious (forming the bad guys) on the other side we have our playing characters and here comes the funny thing: You don't play just one character but every important character in the story. We could say the main character is Alexandra Roivas who is reading a interesting book called 'Tome of Eternal Darkness' and every chapter of the book we get to play a different character. This is what reminds me of Melmoth the wanderer, stories within the main story, and told by their main characters and/or books. Also, Pious character reminds me of Melmoth because he's the link between all those characters along centuries.
There's also another creature, let's say God (they call him the Dying God after all), that reminds me of Lovecraft's Azathoth since he's superior to the Ancients but doesn't do much in the game Although, it was apparently him(?) who trapped the Ancients in the first place.

About the character

Pious Augustus was a centurion (or so I guess for the shape of the feathers on his helmet, a shame I couldn't draw them because I ran out of paper, I don't remember if they mentioned his rank in Pious chapter) in the Roman Army in year 26 B.C. (funny, the Emperor in that time was Augustus ) He was in a mission in the Middle East territories of the Roman Empire when he got separated from his subordinates in the desert and was lured by some mysterious voices to a certain place where some kind of magical circle transported him to a temple where he found the 3 relics of the Ancients as soon as he touched one of the relics he became a Liche the player gets to decide which of the 3 (he's also the only character in the game brave/stupid enough to touch one of the relics with his bare hands). Depending on the relic he becomes the servant of one of the three Ancients in the game. After that he's spent the last 2000 years trying to make the preparations for releasing his master and keeping the other 2 relics safe so the other Ancients are kept trapped. (He obviously failed in this...)

Materials used:
- 15'5 x 21'5 cm white paper (my scaner scans things way bigger than they really are)
- HB2 pencil for outlining
- HB2 and B1 pencil and HB graphite pencil for the flesh and mouth and B2 propelling pencil for smaller details and shading.
- B2 propelling pencil, B4 graphite pencil and B6 and B8 pencils for the rest.

EDIT: Some people commented that the mouth wasn't quite right so I did some adjustments.

Description
This fellow here is Pious Augustus, a character in the videogame 'Eternal Darkness' developed by Silicon Knights and released by Nintendo for Gamecube in year 2002. It's an old game, I know, but I still love it.

For those who don't know anything about this....

About the game:

To summarize, it's a mix between Lovecraft and Melmoth the wanderer by Charles Maturin (jackpot!! I love both!) While we have on one side the Ancients (what HPL named Old Ones) and Pious (forming the bad guys) on the other side we have our playing characters and here comes the funny thing: You don't play just one character but every important character in the story. We could say the main character is Alexandra Roivas who is reading a interesting book called 'Tome of Eternal Darkness' and every chapter of the book we get to play a different character. This is what reminds me of Melmoth the wanderer, stories within the main story, and told by their main characters and/or books. Also, Pious character reminds me of Melmoth because he's the link between all those characters along centuries.
There's also another creature, let's say God (they call him the Dying God after all), that reminds me of Lovecraft's Azathoth since he's superior to the Ancients but doesn't do much in the game Although, it was apparently him(?) who trapped the Ancients in the first place.

About the character

Pious Augustus was a centurion (or so I guess for the shape of the feathers on his helmet, a shame I couldn't draw them because I ran out of paper, I don't remember if they mentioned his rank in Pious chapter) in the Roman Army in year 26 B.C. (funny, the Emperor in that time was Augustus ) He was in a mission in the Middle East territories of the Roman Empire when he got separated from his subordinates in the desert and was lured by some mysterious voices to a certain place where some kind of magical circle transported him to a temple where he found the 3 relics of the Ancients as soon as he touched one of the relics he became a Liche the player gets to decide which of the 3 (he's also the only character in the game brave/stupid enough to touch one of the relics with his bare hands). Depending on the relic he becomes the servant of one of the three Ancients in the game. After that he's spent the last 2000 years trying to make the preparations for releasing his master and keeping the other 2 relics safe so the other Ancients are kept trapped. (He obviously failed in this...)

Materials used:
- 15'5 x 21'5 cm white paper (my scaner scans things way bigger than they really are)
- HB2 pencil for outlining
- HB2 and B1 pencil and HB graphite pencil for the flesh and mouth and B2 propelling pencil for smaller details and shading.
- B2 propelling pencil, B4 graphite pencil and B6 and B8 pencils for the rest.

EDIT: Some people commented that the mouth wasn't quite right so I did some adjustments.