Step 1, receive awesome critique from stigmata.
Step 2, do a few studies, then decide you should probably re-do that tengu.
Step 3, try harder.
Step 4, return to step 3.
Decided to give the tengu another shot. I foolishly realized too late that the pose was a bit similar to Anodyne, so that's something I need to be even more aware of. And now, time to do even more studies. Never stop studies.
This is roughly just under 3 hours, Alchemy + Photoshop. (I don't normally share times, but for those parties interested in estimates for commissions, I'll put them on a few.) Critiques welcome. Hopefully it looks like he's wearing proper leather now! And is more interesting to look at.
Thank you!
I think I was going more for magic orb, and probably should have emphasized that in some way. It didn't occur to me until very late in the time I set aside that I should resolve it, and I think it's not quite there yet.
BUT, if my little Tengu Rogue dies, I'm going to roll up a Tengu Dodgeballer just for you, and will pelt skeleton nerds and evil geeks for the rest of time.
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now.
Let me know if that's big enough. That's half-size of the original.
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L James
Looks really cool to me! I like the rough look. I'm guessing the sphere he's holding is either an important magic relic that he needs on his quest, or a dodgeball to pelt some nerds. Nice work, it is very interesting to look at.