ursa by len-yan

I am definitely playing a paladin/fighter character in my next D&D campaign using this portrait!

Nicely done.

Excellent!

SO refreshing to see a confident mature woman in armour. Love her stone cold facial expression and the beast-embossed shoulder guard details 🤓

Finally. I honestly love when a character feels unique, and this one for sure is. A mature, strong female knights, that's a really rare sight which is a shame

Kinda cool. Would like to see her in action.

Honest to God, this is the most unique and awesome picture I've seen of a female character in a long, long time.
There are thirteen a dozen pictures of young, pretty female warriors who have poses and looks that suggest that they are walking onto a cat-walk.

This lady has a look that says decades of combat and an expression that declares that the toll is not only physical, it's mental too.
Damn powerful!

This is utterly fabulous.

I think she's awesome!!!! Do you do commissions? I would like some bear warrior art for my musical project.

Well done. An honest reminder that surviving battles, even as a winner, takes it's toll. You've captured that in both the scars but also the look.

It's far more difficult than it should be to find pictures of badass older people, especially women. Thanks for this; it's awesome both for that reason and for being great art on its own!

Easily one of my favorite fantasy pieces I've ever seen. Not just for the fact that you've drawn a grizzled old woman warrior, either. The lighting is amazing, I love the simplicity in the armor compared to most fantasy sets, the brush style: it's all so good!

This is just PERFECT

very intense! *_*

This is brilliant! Even more so since there is such a dearth of older female heroes/warriors! This is a character with actual...well...character. I also love her armour and that piercing expression. Very well done!  

Holy heck, this picture is all kinds of awesome!!

extremely well received over here!

There's so much story to her just by looking at her face. Wow!

She looks like a total badass. I love her name too. That, paired with the armor tells a story about her by itself.

The colors and lines are beautiful too. This is an all around excellent piece.

She is tired of everyone's bullshit, you can see it in her eyes. Truly amazing work, love the quite origininality.

F*ck yes, more battle-scarred, realistically-armored women, please.

For your amazing art skills and for this piece especially, you gain a watch. A female warrior wearing practical armor, with scars on her face to symbolize the many tough battles of the past, possessing the age of one who is experienced, and the air of one who will bravely and fiercely fight until the day she is slain?  

YES.  

There needs to be so much more art like this of female warriors. Amazing work.

  Great Artwork    Amazing  

did you use angelina jolie as a reference?

Looks like Lin Beifong decided retirement was no reason to stop kicking ass.  

do you do black and white layer, then overlay color mode ontop for this?

I love this kind of character. Not only are they way too rare, but they open up for some awesome character-ideas. I get the feel of a gritty, vicious lady, not interested in the arrogance of youth or the wry comments of other males. Hardened, serious and capable of fighting as well as any other man, perhaps even better, she makes an imposing figure in both the field and the meeting-room. Awesome, truly.

ursa  (superman)

I want to see a movie about Ursa!

I LOVE the idea!

Old warrior lady with a badass practical armour, scars on her face and a calm, wise expression. I think I love you.

Perhaps she made it this far by wearing practical armour?

Beautiful.

wow, you can hardly see 'old' people in the draws here on DA. Everyone create young, beautiful people but you did something else! And that's amazing. Actually I don't see her as old lady. She looks awesome, full of pride and wisdom. I really like this one!

Really, really gorgeous character design. I love her intensity and her understated strength. Obviously a survivor. Thanks for changing up the female warrior image a little bit!

Beautiful. I love the way the texture on the breastplate mirrors the texture of her skin. Weather-beaten and battle-scarred, just as it should be! I'm gradually learning how to draw and paint older people - it's so nice to have a wider range of character types to portray, rather than just young and smooth-skinned! Gorgeous work, full of story and character, and very well executed on a technical level. Well done!

its refreshing to see an older lady with visible age lines! As always, your works is amazing!

She looks like she's right out of Skyrim!

Urse looks like a woman with experience. Definitely not someone you'd want to mess with either. I love this piece.

Very well done, I love her expression

She looks wonderful, you can see almost everything she's been through just looking at her. 

oh wow incredible!!!!!!!!!!!

Dig it!

Wow nice 

So glad to see someone drawing soemthing other than just young warriors, it gives me a sense of female empowerment to see an older woman who has survived battles!  Absolutely love this.

My eyes puked, couldnt handle the awesomeness!