Since the character already existed, I took the description of him:
"Short, lank, and filthy, this creature stands about four feet and five inches tall, a twisted figure of animalistic nature. Narrow yellow eyes glint out of the Uruk's grimy, gray-skinned face, and just below protrudes a short, snout-like nose set above a row of sharp stained fangs. An odd pale scar is marked into the right cheek, and the faded cut stands out from the dark skin; there is a cold, ethereal tinge about it. Poking out from either side of a tangled mess of dirt and frayed hair are two large, hooked, and pointed ears. Covering the top of the Malkog's head like a crude, macabre helmet is the skull of some fell creature. Long, wirey arms and legs complete the remainder of the Shaman's appearance, and each appendage is topped with a display of hideous black claws. The Orc's feet are bare.
Bagaglok wears an old red robe, the bottom edges of which are muddied and torn. The dark hilt of a scimitar is visible poking out from beneath the folds of scarlet fabric, and a rune decorated shield is hung unceremoniously about his hunched back."
Now, that's a lot of info to convey in a picture...so, naturally, my very first attempt (this is an older drawing that I made prior to the class assignment)
ended up being a more realistic shading drawing. There's some terms that are most likely unfamiliar to non-'Elendorites'. ;) But basically, the character is an orc-shaman of Mordor...simple concept..now to try and translate that into pencil and paper. Unconsciously, I ended up using Warner Brothers' depiction of the house-elf, Dobby, as inspiration (mainly the ears)
And here is the very first attempt at a char concept drawing (these next pictures were uploaded from a camera, so apologies about the quality -- next will be scanned. Most of these were too big for my scanner, so..)
Again, I decided to simplify, and change a few things. Most of it stayed the same, however I turned the style into lineart/cartoon for the expression assignment. I used the '25 expression challenge' idea from deviantart (link), which was a fantastic excersize! My printer wouldn't let me print it big enough, so I used a separate sheet to do it.
While the expressions challenge definitely was challenging, and satisfied most of the class project, I wanted to see what else I could do with the concept. At this point, I had gotten used to the 'toon' style, and could sketch Baga out fairly quick. The next drawings are rather silly. ;)
All right, so this was an attempt at a comic thing. Granted, I haven't tried comics since I was real young, so...hehe. A little bit of an inside joke with this one, by anyway, looking back on it I've decided also that I tried putting too much detail with shading. And let's see about those bold lines and stuff for the talking, and the boxes -- clean it up a bit: those were the things I decided for the future. Well, that's all for now. I'll post the final ones next time, stopping with one of the most current images I've done. Thanks for reading, and congrats if you made it this far!
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