White dwarf 500 cover art

Hey everyone.

Today is a great day as i can share this project i've been working on last year.
White dwarf team commissioned me with the task of creating the cover for the issue 500 of the white dwarf magazine.

It was an honor and a one in a lifetime achievement, the picture was made with oils on a canvas of 100/70cm.

some early photoshop proposal for this, i usually try to define a lot of things at that stage as it helps see where the thing is going (facial expressions, values...etc).

Early WIP stage, making some general work with burnt sienna over the prepared canvas

starting with the face as it was the most important part, then went down for the rest of the dwarf

almost done, only a couple of retakes on the background characters and we're done

the final work