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Qshur making her way through Red Rock.

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My Caves of Qud character Qshur, accosted by dragonfly

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Continuing my Caves of Qud run. Qshur is swimming through rivers and ponds often and getting splattered with the blood of her foes.

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Behind The Art

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I often get asked about my process for drawing big illustrations, so in this post I'm going to show how I made the background in this recent Caves of Qud drawing.

I started with this picture of Qshur looking around the corner I drew yesterday. The goal was to draw Qshur going through Red Rock and sneaking up on some sort of enemy.

I decided for the enemy to be snapjaws since I've been wanting to draw them anyway. I started by drawing 3 poles to show where I wanted the actors to go, then sketching a rough outline.

I inked the rear snapjaw, then realized it was too big, so I erased the other snapjaw and redrew it bigger, so the perspective made sense.

...It doesn't make *perfect* sense, because it makes Qshur look tiny by comparison, but that's fine.

Before I drew their outfits, I went into the game and examined snapjaw corpses to see what they were wearing. It was mostly aprons, tunics, and togas.

I wasn't satisfied with my sketch of the other snapjaw, though, so I went to a notebook and did some practice drawings.

I started inking the face, but it wasn't looking cute enough, so I covered it up with a sticky note and tried again, this time making the snapjaw look to the side, so its mouth would be easier to draw.

It was at this point I needed to decide where the light source was. When I was drawing the first sketch, I considered putting a campfire between the snapjaws, but I didn't want Qshur to be in shadow, so I put it off. It ended up going in the foreground, so that it lights up everyone's faces. Look, the fire even covers up the rear snapjaw's tail so it looks more 3-D! What's that? I got lucky that it all worked out despite the fact that the fire was such an afterthought? No, I swear I planned it all from the start! The campfire was always meant to be far away from the ones supposedly using it!! It was an artistic choice!! Nooooo!!!

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For the last step, I switched to my fine pen and added shading to everything. I also put a question mark over the rear snapjaw's head to make it more expressive, and as for the smoke from the fire, I drew it with marker to make it stand out against the background and frame the shot. I'm proud of how it turned out! ^_^

Anyway, I hope y'all found this interesting!

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