Art - RAGING ORC WARRIOR - (step by step)

The look in his eye(s) told me his rage was reaching the boiling point...

Hello people!

Drew something that took a bit of time, like 3 days or so, stepped into the fourth one too, I present you one raging orc:

TEARS FOR BLOOD,RAGE FOR HONOR

That's how I named this particular illustration, imagined a war thorn battling orc that just had enough, not your regular brute, just that one that tried to look away until one point in time when he could not watch anymore and had to do something.

About the art:

I really wanted to show anger and scars from the battlefield here, went into details for a few days, worked on war paint ideas, bones, muscles, facial structure, expression, armor, imagined rocks flying around, smoke in the background.

I spent time with Photoshop, software that I used to make this one come true, used drawing pad to put it all into work and gave myself a time to figure things out, make pauses, think about color, shadows, effects, lines.

I am having a bit of a hard time at the moment, cooking from the fridge, whatever I can find since I quit the regular job because it took a lot of hits at my health and social life. Now, it's a bit of a struggle, but the work on improving myself in art will not stop man, it will not stop. So it's kinda representation of my will power at the moment, I guess :D

Here is the process:

The lines, sketches, figuring it out. Leaving it for the next day, then stepping back in. If you don't commit yourself there won't be any results, so I pushed this one, it was a proof to myself too. I was satisfied with the lines after many hours that gave back the reward!

Added a basic color here, so I can add more color on top of that with a base understanding of where it leads since green takes the biggest part of the illustration, it was logical to put it on first.

Basic color - (not the base color like the previous one). Here I added everything on top of that green and tryed to give it a little sense of life, movement and effectiveness of the emotion.

Neck and Back! It is such a big part of this piece, so my shadow work was focused on pointing out that the head is in front of everything else. Started doing regular shadowing too.

Working to get the complete shadows that represent the realness of this composure, working good with the life of drawing. After shadows I jumped in with the lights, and pinpointed some really important parts that stick out, it also adds to the whole picture. Some minor lighting work and making those colors lively.

Adding those background effects, working with the color, adding rage to the drawing, adding rocks flying around and minor eye correction, there were some line cleanups here too, and shadow and lighting work on those pebbles in the air. Finished it here and was really happy with the outcome!

Alright, hope it was fun, maybe educational or helpful, thank you for your time!

I am a comic book artist and geek from Serbia, doing illustration work for 15 years now, really enjoying it!

My IG: https://www.instagram.com/the_art_of_rez/