--The Necromancer--

Yes, another one of my Orlando portraits. Although, I really tried for more detail and what not in this one.

So, he's some kind of necromancer with two lovely pet ravens (modeled by two of my murder) with a ghoul manservant. Yes, there are strong influences from WoW and George Romero for the ghoul. And for some reason, this mage has a trapped faerie for his light source.

Playing around with lighting and textures, really tried to think about how different surfaces would react to the light. And then I got distracted doing the tattoos, and must have spent two hours on the little lines, just doodling and spacing them out, when it had all started as the big design on his forehead and the thick lines on the back of his hand.

The original picture didn't show his right hand, so I had to use another bit of reference, and ended up trying to make it more scaly/dead, like he's a necromancer slowly turning into a lich. I like liches.

So, enjoy, and if you can think of some critiques, please throw them at me.

Edit: Well, it's about that time for Ballistic's Exotique book, and I want to try again. I'll keep going every year until I get in. 8P

So I reworked quite a bit of this painting. Having a new hard drive, so I can have a huge scratchdisk, means I can work with MUCH larger images, and do the detail work better.

I like it a lot better this way.