08-08-2013, 04:41 PM
Im ok with him showing courage, maybe the description was too vague or misleading. This guy is good, he's not going to lose. I think that the information provided implies this. Although I will admit that there was not a ton of planning. It was just a basic pose and a chance to render some nice metal with cool details and what not. I then added the composition and adjusted as I went, basically winging it. I had to add the orcs and battle elements because I couldn't justify him standing there like that. I really wanted to add another character to imply that this guy was royal somehow and that they were having like a royal receiving of some kind of guests or something, but I didn't want to double the time spent on this by adding more characters. I'm actually working on an orc illustration, this time I'll take the traditional route and do plenty of roughs and posing, comp and stuff.