This is an older piece, but one of my favorites simply because it was so challenging to do. Naturally I’m very critical about it now, even though it was the best I could do at the time.
I grew up drawing horses, but I had a friend in high school that was much better at drawing them than I ever was. She had a lot of talent and I often wonder what she’s up to these days and if she’s still drawing. I hope so, at least for the joy of it!
So many people that know me also know how much I love World of Warcraft. This is one of my paladins, and also my favorite one, Alastor and his horse, Queenie. I was inspired by those old Renaissance and Medieval Equestrian portraits, and also by a saddle I saw in the Met Museum collection that had gun holsters on it. Alastor is not a very good paladin, and is more like one that is fallen now, so I imagine that aside from using a sword for nefarious purposes, I had to give him a gun, too.
This, like most of my other digital work, was made in Krita.
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