I said sure. Sounds like a fun challenge.. So went away, searched for ideas, any reference material I might need, and began work! It took days (not solid) of drawing and came back with this:

It was approved! But also got a little critique from elsewhere (couldn't post it here for CnC at the time), and made a few amendments. After that, I tightened up the pencil work. Sometimes this means lgihtboxing the existing sketch, but for this I went over it with a darker pencil (HB) and cleaned up the excess with erasers:

Then onto the colouring stage! First thing I do is clean up the line art- after zooming in you notice a lot of scum around the pencil work, which was unoticable on the original paper version, so I fine tune it further.
Then the flats are laid down. Im very much a perfectionist with my flats, and you have to be when flatting for pencil lineart (you can hide bad flatting behind inked work):

It's been approved for the second time so it's now up to me to progress as I see fit. I fear CGing at the start, but it all seems to come together as I get into it

the ONLY crit I have (even though I am sure that you have measured and everything) is that the dude's right leg (his right) looks a slight longer than his left. I looked long and hard at the pic, and it could just be me~

Well, it took me several days on and off (mainly off) but I rendered this guy to a level I was satisfied with and despite several some colouring flaws it didn't turn out too bad, right?:

I didn't really like the look of the white tendril thingies, so I coloured 'em black and change the saturation level on everything but the orange- something I wanted to try after checking out one of Hung Tae Kim's works Well I have two versions at least just incase client didn't like the latest version:

So there ya go! As far as my next artworks goes, I've got one in the works at the moment, which I'm doing for a friend as a favour.. and then I gotta do my game appology pic, even though that one'll only take 15 minutes

that is awesome Bomu!!

I think the first one you put up looks more like a hero character while the second one looks like a bad guy or like a anti-hero.

fuck man that is just awesome.

I'm not going to go too far with praises :3 but its well good X3

I prefer the high saturated version, but I do like the black spikey thingies best XD

Its well different from your other work you got posted on this site... What happened????

And where can I get it to happen to me?

R_T, yeah, I think you're right. I tried to imprive the arm a bit since the first pic, but it could still do with some work.

Giam, I did try rendering the eyes and putting in one of those little light shines, but it blended too much and did'nt look clear, I figured since it's not close up portrit, I would be better off leaving out too much detail..

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Originally posted by Bomu:
[QB]Thanks for the positive comments guys! Make me just wnna go awy and work on something even better and hopefully I will
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