And yet my prototype sketch from two years back...doesn't look like either of those at all.It's the strangest combination of 'looks like legit tech-impact armor that can seal up for space' and 'it's the 13th Century and I'm about to fuck you up'.
"And so, with age, the creature grows degenerate... like that. *waves a paw*"
The trick is to use a brushy-enough brush that it'll razzle-dazzle people enough to realize that you aren't paying enough attention to the values. Also, smart-fill seems to have become a standard tool for me to set up the "underpainting." And if all else fails, never let them see you bleed.That is really nice, like, magazine cover or major ad poster good.