The texture looks great! You do that with brush strokes or is there another trick? I guess his hair and beard will get the same attention?
Hope to see an update:)
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!
1 month later
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.
8 months later
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
Hey there Lodal,
Very impressive portfolio! You did great!
Don't be scared to post 'too much'. No such thing as posting too much! 
(There's a forum badge that you can earn for posting a lot too 
)
Hello Shia,
Thank you very much for the kind words, I appreciate it. I'll keep that in mind for next time, I have lots of pieces (both professional and personal) planed for the upcoming months.
Have a nice day!
1 month later
Hey there, it has been a while!
A crop of a big Symbaroum (Check it out if you don't know that pen and paper RPG, it is great) personal illustration in the work inspired by a scenario we played a while ago... It isn't even a third of the complete picture for now.
My portfolio was lacking big complete illustrations so I have been busy on this one between client works.
And before you ask why the woman, Kelva, has no clothes on her top, she was a changeling shapeshifter witch who could turn into beasts and she'll have animals skulls on her belt, furs and of course arms aha. Same for the guy, Derkan, he'll have legs, he's not a ghost, this is still an early WIP but I hope you like it and that you are intrigued.
Comments and critics are obviously welcome, even at this early stage.
Thank you for your time!
I think it's coming along really, really well. I love the mood and the rendering so far. Pretty solid stuff!
Thank you very much! I'm having tons of fun with, unfortunately, I'll have to put it on hold for now. I have new client work to do. But I'll come back to it as soon as I can.
1 month later
Hello!
Here are the first two revealed NPCs portraits (out of almost 50) I did for the RPG "Knight" in crowdfunding here:
https://www.gameontabletop.com/crowdfunding-154.html
There's an option to have your own PC, NPC, Creature portrait by me or even yourself in armor!
And some portrait illustrations I have done for some of the staff in meta-armor working on "Knight"
The last one is an autoportrait. I hope you like them !
22 days later
Happy Holidays everyone!
Also a quick preview of a current full-body character lineart commission of a D&D Demon Huntress that's going to be finished in the upcoming days. I have 6 other sci-fi bust linearts upcoming as well so stay tuned for more ! Until then enjoy, the end of the year!
11 days later
First of all, Happy New Year and best wishes!
First personal sketch of this new year.
Here is my interpretation of a female Changeling of the Symbaroum universe with a little lovecraftian and 20ies influence. I like the idea of mixing these two universes that are close to my heart, maybe a personal project to explore for this new year...
I often do these kind of research / sketches but I do not post them, would you be interested if I posted more of these and more often?
You can follow my work here:
https://www.artstation.com/lodal
A new one from this evening, same theme and idea but with a Gobelin this time
hey, it's really cool, I love this values! Did you use sharpen filter to achieve this texture? or some kind of texture brushes/layer styles?
