D&D Art Test

It's been a couple of months since the Art Order D&D Art Test challenge, I was very busy at the time and I wasn't able to participate, I had my reference ready, the thumbnails, and some studies of the orc that I was going to do, so basically I had everything ready.

I liked the idea I had so even if there's no challenge I think the illustration could make a nice portfolio piece.

Here's the color rough I've been working on digitally, I'll make the final with acrylics again.

Thanks to Rk Post for the critique and of course Joyce is always there to help me.

Any input is welcome!

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Enchanted Glade - Part 4

This is the final version of the Enchanted Glade illustration

It does look a lot different from the color rough, I painted over some of the smaller details and the trees don't look exactly the same, I thought the overall "feel" of the scene was more important, something otherwordly, if that's a word

I hope you enjoyed this walkthrough my process, I'll make another similar post in the future with more steps in the painting stage, I couldn't take pictures of this one.

Thanks a lot to Steve Prescott for all the help!

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Enchanted Glade - Part 3

Even though I liked the dragon sketch I did, it needed a few changes, the first thing I did was to use my very basic 3D knowledge to create a proper base for the statue.

I also decided to turn the statue the other way, I was surprised I didn't think of it before, this way the statue doesn't "escape" from the view. I also did the drawing again and it turned out much better. Well, the other one was just the sketch.

Finally I made a color rough just to show the basic values and color I'm going to use to my client, I heard an Art Director say that you should give an idea of what colors you're going to use to your AD, so I made this quick version, it was also a good reference for when I started painting the final.

The next part of the series is the last one, and I'll show the final version of the illustration.

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