Sunday, July 26, 2009

Artorder Tuesday challenge



Unfortunately because of a backlog of portrait commissions, I haven't had as much time as I wanted to work on illustration work; but I've still managed to get an entry together for this week's Artorder challenge. I was bummed out that I didn't get things together enough to submit for last week, especially after finding out that Todd Lockwood was helping to judge the entries. He's a fantasy illustrator I've had a great deal of respect for since I was quite young; I actually met him briefly at DragonCon a couple of years ago, and he was about the nicest guy you could meet.

Anyway, I had to rush this piece a little at the end, but I think it came out fairly well. Challenge was to paint a book cover mock-up featuring a Mind-Flayer locked in combat with a female Drow (Both are monsters from Dungeons and Dragons).

That's why the action in the piece is shunted so far to the right (to fit on the theoretical front cover).

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