Personal Work - Dota 2 Tidehunter!

Recently I have been looking through works of my favourite Concept Artists and I have been quite heavily influenced by Mike Azevedo who took designs from Dota 2 and recreated character using his own designs. While this might not sound as an interesting idea I thought I should give it a go. I chose one of the chracters called Tidehunter, who is considered to be water creature.

I quite enjoy the design of this particular character. He feels very powerful and strong. Based on a small research I have started working on my own design for the character. While Azevedo changed his designs completely I wanted to stick to the original look and see if I would be able to recreate a character from a 3D model shown above. 

I've started with the exact same process that I always follow. At first I have created a line work and then I have applied a color wash on top of the drawing. I intentionally did not paint the lower part of the body because I had an idea of him standing in the water, almost as if he was carried by the waves. I have quickly decided on the light directions and I've started to paint it in. 

And here is the final illustration. I really enjoyed working on this project. I intentionally have decided to leave the background simple because I wanted to put the main emphasis on the character. There were many things that I've learned during the process and I am willing to do more paintings of this kind.