So here’s a little redesign of Ganondorf I did last semester for Scifi/Fantasy Imagery. A fun and interesting experiment in mixed media— The original drawing is this sort of crazy mashup of ink, pencil, and acrylic paint on bond paper.

Let me tell you something about bond paper: it rocks.

It’s got the functionality of tracing paper minus those awful inconsistencies in opacity, just a very even white all the way through. Best of all, it’s really made for tracing over a pencil drawing with marker and ink— meaning it doesn’t bleed through at all! Paint is of course not recommended as it’ll wrinkle it up, but since the point of this exercise was to produce a digital image the surface quality was less important here.

I also went ahead and threw up a process sketch to give you an idea of how it evolved.

I decided to do Mignola’s Hellboy, inspired by N.C. Wyeth.

It’s as though my geekiness and my artsiness had a bastard.

It’s funny how things that are meant to be will just turn out - This one took about a full night’s work to complete.

Acrylics, 2011.

Sketchbook, 2009.