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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Menzoberranzan

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By Jesper Ejsing




This is a cover I did a while back, that has just been released. The book is called Menzoberranzan - City of Intrigue, and is all about Drows. The assignment asked for a beautiful female drow, flying through her underground city.



Here is what i think is super difficult about Drows: they have black skin and live underground! Which means you are actually painting a dark figure - since they also like to dress black and dark - in a poorly lit environment. As you can see, I chose to do a dark figure against a light back ground.



The steps I am showing are: Thumb/sketch, transferred sketch on board, value version on board and final.



When looking at it now I really wanna change the armguards. they look like something out of a Spiderman Movie.



The original is size 40cm by 50cm and is painted in acrylic. The inked value version I inked with a waterproof filtpen and toned with black acrylic.



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