Elderscrollers Sketchy Stuff

[Elderscroller]

In my effort to better my basic drawing skills and maybe also do something for my design skills, I decided to do more "Master" studies of people who really know how to handle a pencil. I did some studies of Alexandr Pascenkos traditional drawings as I really love the way he draws. For those who don´t know him, here is a link to his deviantart page:
http://alexpascenko.deviantart.com/

I was not going for a complete copy, I tried to study how he lays down his lines, his line weight and at least a bit how he renders and designs his characters:








I also started to do some John Howe studies of his pencil work as he is most inspiring. This is from item concepts from The Hobbit:




I´m planning to do more of these studies as I found them very helpful.

I tried to apply what I have learned a day later in a figure from mind to see if anything stuck. Turned out ok, but I know, I can do better: