"Thrall at the Maelstrom"
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Since I'm waiting for some of my illustration work to clear that's currently under wraps because of NDAs, here's a personal piece I recently finished. Normally, I try to steer clear from doing any kind of "fan art", but what started out as a simple warm up sketch ended up getting me excited and really into the piece so I decided to just finish it up. Normally when I do warm ups, I choose familiar subject matter (this ends up being things from games that I play or movies that I watch). In this case, I decided to do a portrait of the character Thrall from Warcraft. I try to keep things relevant to the game's storyline whenever I decide to do a Warcraft related piece and this one focused on the most recent Patch 4.2 - "Rage of the Firelands".
Aah I recognized Thrall on the first look, well done.
ReplyDeleteGreat piece Eric. Love the magical energy. Really nicely executed.
ReplyDeleteCool piece Eric! The color play between the orange and green works really well... and the flame is awesome!
ReplyDeleteReally dig how you handled the magic effects! Nice stuff =)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, everyone :) Apparently the energy effect is a favorite, I've been hearing that most about the piece.
ReplyDeleteMy husband works at Blizzard and I am constantly surrounded by Warcraft and Starcraft and Diablo Artworks - never actually thought about trying that theme for myself (probably, because there are awesome artists such as Eric out there who do a perfectly good job on it!) Great painting, I loooove the green lights! =)
ReplyDeleteWhattttt?! Your husband works for Blizzard?? I am so very jealous ;) What does he do there? That's awesome. I'm dying to get my foot in the door there, it's like trying to get through the Black Gate...haha! And thanks so much! :D My next Blizzard piece will be way more complex than this I think.
ReplyDeleteHe's working here in Cork as a Manager - nothing to do with the art at all, but he brings prezzies home sometimes such as artbooks and special editions and magazines full of nice pictures :) Looking forward to your next artwork!!
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