Orcish Companion

First Companion

I'm treating the process of creating my art book as if I was working on real art for a video game, now because of that I decided that when you 'played' you would start off with three companions and would be able to change these as the story went on. 

The first 'companion' I decided to design is Duran Bloodfist...name very much subject to change before finished book, but he is an Orc who you would see in the opening cinematic or right on the beginning. He would be one of your starter companions, now I wanted him to look imposing and a bit menacing, he is an orc after all, but I also wanted him to have a slightly softer look than what you see in most fantasy art. 

I'm not sure if I succeeded or not with these first headshot designs but I've got a few designs out of them that I really really like.

Below is the six headshots I've done for this character so far, my scanner broke so I had to take photos of them then edit the contrast/levels in photoshop before colouring.

I've also included a time lapse of my colour process as I just discovered procreate records your drawing process! Which I thought I'd start including with my art posts from now on.