This is the first painting I did, originally it was more realistic and based off an idea I had been working on for a story. But I ended up going away from that because it was boring and a big undertaking for my first try. Ended up taking 3 or 4 days to finish this up. Originally I was pretty ok with what I did. I especially liked the armor/suit, but as I kept going I really started to hate it. I was really hard on myself but took a lot away from it and applied it to my next piece. 

This was my second attempt I did the very next day after finishing up my first piece. I went a bit more simplistic only trying to finish a head and get that right. I looked at a lot of other artist for inspiration as I drew it and I started to learn pretty quickly. Firstly I think the sketch was 100x better than the first which helped a lot. But my use of brushes expanded and I started to add more texture and get better at blending the colors. I didn't want to go too realistic, but also not too much into the cartoon/anime look either. Overall I was really proud of this one, I enjoyed it and the speed was the most surprising aspect considering the other piece took 3x as long. 

This is my last "test" you could say. I thought with the new WoW expansion coming out I should do something based off of it. I went with an orc because I wanted to work on a male this time and Orcs are pretty cool in color and detail so I wanted something more challenging. This also took a day and was a lot faster than the previous one. I really like the colors and detail the texture and sketch brings. Easily my favorite of the 3 but also still needs work overall.