Elvish Druid

Thanks so much!

Only if you have a hard time getting your values down, which I am HORRIBLE with when I go straight to color. The only thing that I find is difficult is once you get to the point you want to apply color to the piece, sometimes the colors you want to use don't work well due to the fact you have to overlay the color over the the B&W image. It's probably because I haven't found the right technique yet, but that's something to be aware of.

Thanks! You just don't see a lot of artwork with rugged manly men elves. Got to find a balance somewhere.

I don't think they had the green hair though did they? I remember doing another character once when I was on a big Baldur's Gate 2 kick, one with my ranger cleric toon, and someone criticized her hair color being wrong for a certain kind of elf. But that was over at Elfwood, so who knows?

There really should be some more warmer colors in his skin. I kept trying to put more reds or oranges in but then it was changing his skin to almost peach which I really didn't like. Poor guy looks pretty pale though without that tough of warmer hues. >.<

Thank you! I do agree there is too many pretty elves. Maybe I can make some really creepy elves sometime that are cannibalistic monsters or something.

Tattoos are a bitch really. It's so much easier to draw simple one color tribals, then you can get them bend and curve the surface of the skin easier. But I've tried doing more complicated stuff, only get half way through it and realizing how printed onto the skin and fake it looked.

It looks a bit different probably because I did this in B&W first. Usually I don't do that I just hit straight color and run, but when I was setting up the lighting on this via the color, I was losing a lot of my values because I was too focused on color. The evolution of this image was a giant one really.

Work is crazy. I've had a lot to do both out of the office and in really. To be honest, I don't know how feasible it will be for me to make the New Zealand workshop. Right now I've got too many things to do, and too many bills piling up which are sucking money down. Maybe I might be able to scrape something together, but even then, time won't really be on my side either as later in the year work is still going to be very busy. This year sucks.

Some of the textures aren't manually done, I got a bark texture for the main trunk of the tree and I used some texture effects in Painter to get other textures (like the leather pits on the armor). It was the add grain brush, then you apply a paper texture and it puts in the grain as a texture. It's a neat way to get some effects! I'm not playing WoW anymore. Quit that game laster year as it got a little too tedious and dull.