Lodal’s new portfolio in the work

Hello Cubebrush!
It has been a while since I last visited the forum.

Here's a sneak peek of a work for my portfolio, celebrating the awesome memories I had with my friends playing D&D for about two years!

From the left to the right:
- Kreggan, the dwarf ranger
- Li, the elf monk
- Drez, the half-orc barbarian
- Eva Thruel, the elf sorceress
- Broran, the veteran warrior
- Barachiel, the blessed priest
- Liadri, the assassin
And of course our fantastic DM, keeping an eye on us from the background.

DnD Team Illustration sketches web version DA - kyllian guillart 05-09-17.jpg1516x972 1.03 MB

I'm going to paint them all for my portfolio that I would like to send to Wizard of the Coast by next year. Wish me good luck !

I hope you like them, and if you have any questions, comments or critics, go ahead!
(sorry for the watermark, it is just a precaution as it is an early WIP and I don't want it to be stolen, I hope you understand)

Here are the critics/advices I received so far and taken into account:
- Work more on the pose of the Eva (the female elf in the center) to make it looks more natural like the others
- Work on the legs anatomy
- The dwarf is too skinny and has too long arms
- Play with overlays of the characters, with clothes, drapery etc between them (that was planed but not in this sketch)

See you in the next update

• Kyllian
  Freelance Concept Artist/Illustrator
  (currently available @ lodaligae@gmail.com)
  https://www.instagram.com/lodaligae/
  https://www.artstation.com/lodal

Thanks everyone ! And sorry for the delay, I had no internet since the day I posted this aha.

@achronic Thank you very much and yeah go ahead, the world needs even more d&d art aha
@marc Thank you very much! I'll do my best
@Mocart Thank you!
@rokdem Thank you for the feedbacks! And in the end I redid completely Eva's drawing and pose and It is much better now. And I must agree, now that I look at Liadri, she will definetly require more rework and maybe a new drawing as well. As for Barachiel's left arm, I'll have to look and search for proper reference to make it look more natural when I come to that point. Thanks a lot!

Here's a sneak peek of what I am currently doing on them.

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kyllian guillart - drezz portrait preview 19-09-17.jpg935x833 272 KB

I started with Eva, the beautiful elf sorceress (I redrew it completely and she fits better with the other characters):
critics from myself:
- the lighting is a simple layer with a mask, I'll have to paint it properly after.
- needs refinement on anatomy and face
- she looks cross-eyed at the moment
- start working on the hair/ears
- add brighter values maybe
Drezz, the deadly half-orc barbarian lady:
- the female/male/androgyne face is wanted
- needs refinement on the anatomy and face
- maybe more expressive

And yes I have done the whole body but is not ready to be shown yet (they don't have clothes yet and it is rough, I'll keep that for later).

I'll post the progress and other characters in the upcoming days/weeks.

I hope that you like them as much as I enjoy working on them! And of course I am open to Comments and critics even at this early stage on them.

Thanks!

An update on Drez, started to detail, refine, add highlights and started thinking about the costume, maybe a bit too samuraiish but that'll be fixed. Still heavy WIP. (also started my dwarf Kreggan, but not ready to show it yet )

Here's the progress so far:

Thanks!

Hey!
Taking a little break from commissions work (yay). To post some preview of my dwarf Kreggan, the dwarf ranger.
I hope you enjoy him as well!

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Thank you very much for the support Rokdem!
Yup I thought it was too samuraiish at the time I made it, but now that I look at it, it isn't that obvious anymore. I'll have to define it anyways.

Aha, and yes I took another approach for Kreggan, this time I had the rough drawing you saw in the group picture, but I didn't decided to redraw it like the other but I tried to do a blank silhouette other the lines and see how it would work, it made him a bit more stylised at the begining but my concentration was on the big shapes. I guess he will become a bit more "realistic" with more colors and details/values like Drezz now. I'll have to flip the portrait to see what's wrong with the nose, thanks for noticing. And don't worry, he is a fierce warrior but a very kind and humble person.

I don't really have a process or steps, I just go with the flow but I'm happy it is helpful for someone else.
So far, my "process" for these was to do:
- rough sketch of the pose without clothes for all the characters
- think about the costume
- refine the anatomy drawing under it
- flat skin colors under the lines
- start painting in colors directly under the lines
- start refining the painting over the lines
- adjust with layers and masks for lighting scenari like in Eva's portrait
- sketch costume ideas over it.
- next we'll see

Thanks again Rokdem!

Hey everyone,
I was blown away by Sergey Kolesov's portraits he did for the latest Dishonored and that motivated me to get better with textures, shapes and volume.
So here's an update on my dwarf ranger, Kreggan portrait. I prefer it that way. It is still a WIP but I really like where it is going.

Thank you, I did that with brush strokes yes, I use the brushes of Bastien Lecouffe Deharme and Peleng but these strokes were done with one brush If I remember correctly. And yes the rest will definetly get the same attention.

I have been working on an another character (a god) for a Dnd Homebrew campaign for someone else (I have to do 7 characters for him ) and I hope I'll be allowed to show him because he is quite cool right now.

Thanks!

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing good?
I apologize for the lack of updates, I have been been busy with tons of little commissions in october and then did and completed the Artstation challenge "Beneath the Waves" in the character design category
Here's the thread for WIPs, story, description etc... Here I won't post the pictures directly there because they are quite big for the submission but all is in the link.
I hope you like them, I had a lot of fun doing them and I learned a lot.
Also I wanted to have more sci-fi work for my portfolio because I am mainly working on fantasy projects but I love both.

Hello there,

I hope you are all doing fine, I have been very busy, and totally forgot this topic.
If you want to see what you missed since last year, I have a proper portfolio website now:
Here
And some on my instagram as well: Here
I allow myself to directly post the links since I don't want to drown you with 50+ pictures of illustrations, sketches and commissions. But i'll try to keep this topic updated when I can and directly post on it. I have been recently hired to 40+ portraits of NPCs for tabletop rpgs, and If I am allowed to post them, I'll do that here. I'm also working on my most ambitious personal illustration with an environment and multiple characters since it is lacking in my portfolio, I'll post some sneak peeks here as well.
Until then, thank you very much for your interest and have a nice weekend.

• Lodal