Sorry I've been gone so long guys. Feel bad about that. But my work gets super busy from time to time. By the time I get home I'm rather spent and don't feel like drawing anymore. Too tired ... need sleep....
Or sometimes other side projects I'm involved with eat up any freetime I do get. So those are my excuses...blah, blah, blah.
Because I had let so much time go by before finishing Grilok for D20Dazza, I felt guilty about it. Heh heh. So I was thinking, if D20Dazza has to wait this long, I might as well try and do a better job on the drawing than just merely sketching out something in a half an hour or so. So I went back into the drawing and took some more time. Then I threw it in Photoshop and colored up as well.
Artist Notes: (if you're curious as to what I was thinking when I did this) With smaller drawings on eight and a half by eleven pieces of paper, there's only so much detail you can put in. True, I could go to my .5 mechanical pencil or something, but at certain point the viewer will just see a jumble of lines. So unfortunately, I had to leave out certain things. For instance, I left out the pattern & runes on his fangs. At the scale in which I've drawn him, it would be just a mess of lines around his mouth. I left the fangs free of detail so you could at least see their form and shape.
So..heh heh, just imagine they are still there, but you really got look super close cuz they're carved so lovingly small into the ivory of his teeth. If this was a head shot drawing, then yes...I could put that detail in. Another thing that went was the amulet of scale and feather. At first I drew it along with the crystal but it seemed not to visually 'read' correctly as an amulet. The area around his neck got too busy with detail as well. So I just left only the crystal. Plus, I wasn't sure what you meant by an amulet made of scale and feather. True, I could've came back here and asked, but seriously, it was like 2:00am in the morning and I was rather sleepy and lazy. Sorry about that bud.
Another thing is his scarred pit of a left eye. The boar's skull hangs over his head and at the angle I've drawn him, you can't see it. True, I could've picked an angle where you saw both sides, but then I didnt' want him looking at camera. Plus if he did, the skull would obscure both eyes. Then you'd have to lower the camera and make it an upshot so you see underneath the skull. I didn't want to do an upshot drawing for this guy so I just choose to only show one eye.
The green leather armor I made more of a subdued turqoise/emerald green than a straight up ranger green or something like that. Hope you don't mind.
The wooden plugs in his ears I wasn't so sure about. I didn't know how they looked or how big they were so I just winged it. They were gonna be colored in brown (for wood), but as I was nearing completion, I changed it to the turqoise green like color that matches his leather armor and facial tattoos.
Other than those above mentioned compromises, I hope you like it anyways. Grilok was really fun to draw.
D20Dazza said:
Appearance: Grilok is tall for a half orc, even accounting for his slightly stooped stature. This is because his arms and legs are longer and more flexible than the average half orc. He only has his right eye, his left is just a scarred pit. Large curved tusks jut out from his strong jaw and smaller teeth rise unevenly from his black gums. The teeth and tusks have all been pain-stakingly engraved with eldritch patterns and runes. His wide nostrils are flared and pierced with crystal spindles of various hues. His wide, pointed ears have been pierced with wooden plugs. His face is painted with dark shades of ink giving it a leering almost alien cast.
The horrid boar skull that sits lightly a top his head, protecting his skull and neck from serious attack, accentuates his height. A long cape made of the skin of some bizarre creature (probably from the same creature who's skull protects his head), both furred and scaled, is settled upon his broad shoulders.
He wears armour made of leather and stained a deep green. The leather has been carved with magical symbols and eldritch runes and is covered in tiny studs. Patched leather breeches cover his legs and high heavy leather boots protect his feet. A potion belt makes sure that his breeches remain up and his potions close at hand.
A wickedly curved purple hued scimitar hangs from his belt and he grips a long spear with a very sharp, painful looking point. He wears magical rings on the thumb of each hand and an amulet of scale and feathers hangs around his throat, dangling next to the crystal capped necklace that he uses as a focus for his magic.
