Fantasy Illustration - Tiamat's Chosen - Final

This is a mock fantasy book cover, set in the Forgotten Realms universe, that I did on commission.

The client wanted something that was akin to a Star Wars movie poster with characters sprinkled throughout the image. The blue character, Ningal, is some sort of important leader in the country of Unther. The other famous character in the image is Tiamat -- she's in the upper right corner. She's a dragon deity in cloaked in human form. The client wanted her depicted as a sort of spunky teenager girl.

During the process of creating this picture I worked out a design for each character before combining them into the picture. Here's the related character design blog posts.

Sketchbook014 - Megacon 2009

Portrait quick sketch commissions and random face sketches from Megacon 2009. All sketches done with a .09mm mechanical pencil in blue graphite. The large shots on top are the portraits. The customer keeps the originals, so I archive the art with photos. Too bad the shadows from the overhead lights make a mess of things.

Further down the page are doodles of people I observed. Since the show is constantly moving, many of the heads are a mix hair and facial features from various people who walked by my table. I’ve numbered the more complete faces. Tell me if you see yourself.


Sketchbook014 - Megacon 2009 by ~Quasimanga on deviantART

In other news, I now have the flu. Thank you Megacon. Here's hoping I recover quickly.