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This is what happens when you commission a painting and ask me to "Paint whatever you want."
This digital work is definitely a homage to Frank Frazetta, and it has been christened a "furzetta" for obvious reasons.
Oddly the Elephant and Gazelle gave me the least trouble. It was the foreground figure, the gazelle's robes, and the Elephant's weapon that presented the greatest challenges.
The Foreground figure wasn't hard to paint, but it also isn't the figure I originally envisioned which was a naked male mongoose figure. But the difficulty of painting the fur covered muscles proved too great, and I had to change the figure to the hunched and sinister figure you see here. Arguably, this makes for a more interesting tableau with a more dramatic backstory.
The weapon was awkward to visualize because I'm so used to painting metal weapons, and in this particular fantasy setting they're all made of magic crystal. So I went for a jade look.
I did this painting so that it might serve as art that could be used by my friend Scott Jones as an illustration for his Shard RPG. ( www.shardrpg.com/ ) I felt the mixture of Frazetta and anthropomorphics had not been sufficiently explored as an artistic endeavour.

Description
This is what happens when you commission a painting and ask me to "Paint whatever you want."
This digital work is definitely a homage to Frank Frazetta, and it has been christened a "furzetta" for obvious reasons.
Oddly the Elephant and Gazelle gave me the least trouble. It was the foreground figure, the gazelle's robes, and the Elephant's weapon that presented the greatest challenges.
The Foreground figure wasn't hard to paint, but it also isn't the figure I originally envisioned which was a naked male mongoose figure. But the difficulty of painting the fur covered muscles proved too great, and I had to change the figure to the hunched and sinister figure you see here. Arguably, this makes for a more interesting tableau with a more dramatic backstory.
The weapon was awkward to visualize because I'm so used to painting metal weapons, and in this particular fantasy setting they're all made of magic crystal. So I went for a jade look.
I did this painting so that it might serve as art that could be used by my friend Scott Jones as an illustration for his Shard RPG. ( www.shardrpg.com/ ) I felt the mixture of Frazetta and anthropomorphics had not been sufficiently explored as an artistic endeavour.