Art Director: Nicholas Logue
For (and copyright) Sinister Adventures
www.sinisteradventures.com

Medium: Photoshop

This one was a lot of fun. The character designer and art director Nick Logue's ultra-descriptive character studies are some of my favorites to work from - in fact, he does half my work for me by creating such vivid imagery with his writing. Right down to the face hooks. We did a few snippets together last year, and I hope to have the pleasure of painting many more.

Overall, this was intended to be a quick character portrait, but it ended up being a bit more.

Technically, I think the snow was the most difficult part to achieve convincingly (or semi-convincingly), and I think muting the human slave's skin tone to match the snow was a good choice in terms of composition. The armor design was also a challenge, since normally I'm not much for costume design, so I had to really think it out. Let's see, she's a vamp, so she doesn't care about the cold... she's a knife-thrower so she wouldn't want her joints encumbered... etc.

The sneak preview went up on the SA site today so I'm happy to get to share this. Enjoy.