WIP "A King's End"

Hi!
I tought that this time around I will show you a few steps in my drawing process. I'm still trying to figure out a good work flow so you should not take this as any one truth.
So i first made a small sketch of a scene were a dying warrior sees an angel. I developed the idea further so it is actually a dying king surrounded by other people and his horse. I started to draw it on an A3 paper. Here is how far I made it this evening. As it is too large for my scanner I took a crappy mobile photo.

(update 25th Jan: I uploaded a better quality picture)

First step

Transcendence of Man

This scene I worked on for about 8 hours. It is drawn with Derwent sketch pencils. When I begun I had this idea that the sun ray will filter through the fingers and light up the face. First I drew the line work without shading. Then I scanned it and printed a clean line version. After that I shaded with pencils. The benefit is that I could experiment with the shading without disrupting the line work.

==The Transcendence of Man(?)==
Excerpts from Dr. John´s Journal
We found in the jungle this magnificent beast of brass and steel covered by the vegetation. My conservative estimate is that it has slumbered here for at least two thousand years maybe a few more. The builders of the brass titan is an unknown civilization. After about a week of studying the behemoth my conclusions are that it is their final monument to the perfection that is man and reach for god hood. The sheer size indicate that is was built to reach for the sky, and as it is a humanoid it is a monumental tribute to humans. The reliefs on the belt is the most enigmatic and interesting part. The reliefs depicts people of all parts of society, soldiers, mothers,  workers with hammer's and sickles etc. walking towards a flame inside a very stylized sun. I believe this flame symbolizes enlightenment. The straight ray like reliefs shooting upwards from the flame could symbolize the transcendence process.

If they was able to build this monster they may have had within their grasp the power to achieve immortality.  What ultimately happened to the builders I cannot say. Maybe they reached their fulfillment or then maybe their arrogance led to their demise. To uncover the mystery I intend to set up a permanent base here in the jungle to explore what more secrets lie under the almost impenetrable cover of vegetation.

This morning I had a foreboding feeling when I looked at the sunrise. The scene looks like the titan weeps for its futile attempt to catch the sun rays in its hand that reaches toward the rising sun.

Until next time.

Transcendence of Man

Also available at http://jlaunila.deviantart.com/#/d4n8yjv

Colour, yes!

Hi.

It´s time again for an update: I been busy and until a few days ago I didn´t have time to draw. But now I have a few pictures.

I have bought some coloured pencils and new markers and lots of different kind of A3 size papers A week ago. I started to draw a scene of  a combat between the Battle Angels and Industrial steam punk soldiers on a flying ship. I made some fast pencil sketches and I was not too happy so I will return to it later when my skills are better. Meanwhile I have been playing around with some scifi soldier and trained to colour stuff with my markers and pencils. The Elf and griffon are not my own designs but copied from Fantasy Art books (originals by Steve Sims respective Steve Beaumont) 

Be seeing you!

Griffon (coloured pencils A3)

Elf Princess (Alchohol based markes)

Futuristic Soldier (pencil)

Stormtrooper with steam jetpack

Yesterday I made a sketch of an aerial scene including the battle angel and this bad ass storm trooper. I wont upload the sketch for the scene but here is the storm trooper sketch. I did it during the darkest hours (3 AM) :) I uploaded the orginial and  kind of comic version of it coloured in PAINT.NET (great easy to use free graphics program).  I also opened a Deviant Art account with the name "JLaunila" where I will also upload future pictures.

Jetpack stormtrooper Original

Jetpack stormtrooper coloured

Week of sketches

Salve!

So it's a new year and time to update this blog. I collected some sketches that I have made during the week. The theme is still mostly steampunk and 19th century and I concentrated on practicing drawing humans. Here you go.

Battle angel

Gent

Lady

Coloured version

Male body and running soldier

Holy warrior in steam powered armour