Course final project: cross-over art pt.7

Today I finished painting the main body and moved onto tackling his left arm -- I was well aware it would cover a lot of the detail I had painted on him but for the sake of being thorough I wanted to include all ot if. Besides when the time comes to present the final version I can just include both with and without the arm.

I may have mentioned wanting to use actual shipheads as his shoulder-lion-things but obviously that wouldn't have fit too well, so taking inspiration from an in-game shiphead model, I created a mash-up between it and ISIC's own model.

The arm is not yet finished, by the way. You may also notice I dropped the opulence -- this is an iron lion instead of a flashy golden one to fit the overall theme better.

Mind you, while working on this I thought in this case you could also simply call this creation "a skin". Battleborn also has its fair share of different skins in the game that change the appearance of the character you're playing. Skins don't add anything to the characters' abilities and are just for the looks. This one I'm doing could instead of a cross-over be also called "ISIC's Sea of Thieves skin". Even for a small fandom such as Battleborn there's a number fan-created skins for the characters, and I'm actually happy to include this idea among them.

I didn't actually plan on painting over screenshots for this project, but it seemed to work well for the first image so yesterday I started doing the groundwork for the second image. I needed a good shot that would showcase the right side's fancy cannon arm better, and landed on this one. Working on it should be fast since the rest of him will stay a silhouette more or less, I'm estimating I can finish the project in 2 days.