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Ah, the joys of Deviation categorization... does this belong in Fantasy or Portraits? It's a portrait of a fantasy subject... oh, well, if someone wants it changed then we can change it, I ain't picky.

ANYHOW, seeing as my computer is still the most expensive paperweight you ever did see, I had a little time in the evenings and I've been pushing myself along easy paths... if you leave me alone, I generally fall into a tendency to illustrate pulp-fantasy material like this fella here. I'm fairly pleased with this guy but he has a few imperfections... so I'm wobbling on whether or not to build this up further or let it alone and move on. It's not as though I get paid to draw this stuff...

Pencil, 14x15, Bristol. No digital tools whatsoever, but I did strip out the red pencil that I use to rough everything out, so don't think I did this without a LOT of underlying sketch work... it's just hidden away.

He's your archetypical Tolkienesque D&D dwarf, short and scarred and lookin' pissed-off even when he's just having a quiet smoke. There's not much depth to this portrait, but I took it as an exercise in hiding cute crap in the details. Expect a detail collection (much like I did with the Alleyway) to come along at some point. I'm not 100% pleased with the head on that weapon, but I done with it what I done with it, and it's pretty done. I think I probably should have done something more detailed in there, though, something in a frieze or bas-relief sculpture around the hammerhead. Dunno if I want to try erasing that pencil, though...

And of course, he needs a background. Just because they're a bitch doesn't mean you can call a shot finished without one.

My animation work is very focused right now, and it's about as far from this sort of thing as you might imagine. Given that it's consuming a good amount of my time and energy, I plan to be pretty self-indulgent with my personal work, so if you're not a fan of this sort of crap then I don't know what to tell ya... I'll try not to fall into a complete rut.

- MAJOR EDIT - 010206 -

As I'm inserting a whole background and whatnot for this fellow, I also added a bit more detail and decided to replace the previous version with the new one. Detail was added to the pickhammer head, for the most part, and little else on this version has changed. This version is a little less clean, if only because now is not a good time for me to clean it up, but it's also cropped somewhat closer to the character, resulting in a slightly larger version of the image overall, I think. I may replace this one final time with a cleaned version, but for now this is the only "character only" version of the image.

You can take a look at the preliminary background and get a little peek at how the process goes by checking out the WIP version of this in the Scraps. Let me know what you think of the updated version!

- EDIT 2 - 032706 -

FINALLY finished the BG on this, at least to an acceptable degree. Check out the complete piece at >> [link] << and see what you think.

Description
Ah, the joys of Deviation categorization... does this belong in Fantasy or Portraits? It's a portrait of a fantasy subject... oh, well, if someone wants it changed then we can change it, I ain't picky.

ANYHOW, seeing as my computer is still the most expensive paperweight you ever did see, I had a little time in the evenings and I've been pushing myself along easy paths... if you leave me alone, I generally fall into a tendency to illustrate pulp-fantasy material like this fella here. I'm fairly pleased with this guy but he has a few imperfections... so I'm wobbling on whether or not to build this up further or let it alone and move on. It's not as though I get paid to draw this stuff...

Pencil, 14x15, Bristol. No digital tools whatsoever, but I did strip out the red pencil that I use to rough everything out, so don't think I did this without a LOT of underlying sketch work... it's just hidden away.

He's your archetypical Tolkienesque D&D dwarf, short and scarred and lookin' pissed-off even when he's just having a quiet smoke. There's not much depth to this portrait, but I took it as an exercise in hiding cute crap in the details. Expect a detail collection (much like I did with the Alleyway) to come along at some point. I'm not 100% pleased with the head on that weapon, but I done with it what I done with it, and it's pretty done. I think I probably should have done something more detailed in there, though, something in a frieze or bas-relief sculpture around the hammerhead. Dunno if I want to try erasing that pencil, though...

And of course, he needs a background. Just because they're a bitch doesn't mean you can call a shot finished without one.

My animation work is very focused right now, and it's about as far from this sort of thing as you might imagine. Given that it's consuming a good amount of my time and energy, I plan to be pretty self-indulgent with my personal work, so if you're not a fan of this sort of crap then I don't know what to tell ya... I'll try not to fall into a complete rut.

- MAJOR EDIT - 010206 -

As I'm inserting a whole background and whatnot for this fellow, I also added a bit more detail and decided to replace the previous version with the new one. Detail was added to the pickhammer head, for the most part, and little else on this version has changed. This version is a little less clean, if only because now is not a good time for me to clean it up, but it's also cropped somewhat closer to the character, resulting in a slightly larger version of the image overall, I think. I may replace this one final time with a cleaned version, but for now this is the only "character only" version of the image.

You can take a look at the preliminary background and get a little peek at how the process goes by checking out the WIP version of this in the Scraps. Let me know what you think of the updated version!

- EDIT 2 - 032706 -

FINALLY finished the BG on this, at least to an acceptable degree. Check out the complete piece at >> [link] << and see what you think.