To practice both painting and faces, I’ve started doing fantasy portraits. Once I get enough of them I’ll upload the set to OpenGameArt.org and maybe incorporate them into Dungeon Monkey Eternal.
I wanted to do the pictures in traditional media because in my mind that’s how classic fantasy portraits are supposed to be done. Obviously I am not going to achieve the same kind of look as Larry Elmore or Jeff Easely but I have confidence that with enough practice I can do something that isn’t entirely terrible.
The dwarf at the top of this post was the first one I did. It’s in watercolor, which I think was a mistake, and I won’t be using that again (maybe). The human was second, and the orc was third. These were done in acrylics. Both the dwarf and orc are modeled on my own face. The human is based on a photo from atistatplay.deviantart.com.
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