Daily sketch - shadow goblin scout revisited

Hello Steemians!

Last night, after I've done my shadow goblin scout I thought about what does he remind me of I went through my old d&d papers. I've found the original image and I've used it as reference for my second drawing attempt.

Here is the drawing:

Here is the reference image:

Image is for shadow goblin d&d 1st (or 2nd) edition made available (and free) in 2005 by Dragonsfoot (more links at: www.dragonsfoot.org - the module is called: The spider farm). I've used those nasty creatures on many occasions and they are deadly.

I've used the reference image as I'm working on my poses now and I'm practicing those. As usual, I've started with pencil outline and later started to change things as I see fit and added some details (unfortunately I didn't take those two photos). I decided to change the pose a little, mostly hands.

After that was done I did the outline with 0.3 fine liner:

What bothers me with my current paper, the cotton 270 gr/m2 kind is that my fine liners feel dried out when I use them on that one. It was difficult to do the outline. Next time I need to try out the fountain pen - I hope I won't forget that idea.

Once the outlines were done I've erased the pencil. I've also checked if everything was lined properly and made few smaller fixes.

Painting with colored pencils was also tricky on this paper as it seems to be just perfect to smudge and smear the color around. It's very tricky to work with (most likely because it's watercolor paper - and I don't like watercolors). After I was done with colors I was satisfied with my work.

Bonus round!

After I did my second version of my goblin scout, I remembered that I have colored inks! And I wanted to use them and try them out on that same paper. It worked flawlessly!

And I did this little fellow. On this first one I decided to use inks as base color. Inks worked great and I wish I had more variety of color (I have yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple and some sort of reddish brown).

After adding some details with colored pencils this is the result.

The process was more fun than when I was using watercolors and the colors are more consistent (that's the only thing I hate about watercolors - visible brush strokes and poor consistency - maybe I have bad colors). It shows potential and I may try it few more times to see what can be done. It's all trial and error. :)

That's it from me today :)
Have fun and keep steemin!
@zneeke