Forest King - New from Tim

[jainitai]

Tim just sent me these tonight. He calls it the "Forest King". Here's the original prelim sketch:


forest king prelim by BillyBobKrishna, on Flickr

Then here's the transfer of the original prelim to the actual working surface paper:


forest king by BillyBobKrishna, on Flickr

It's always fun seeing how Tim's work progresses from the initial rough sketch to the final illustration. Thanks for sharing with us, Tim!

Here's an update. 2 hours of drawing into it:


forest king - 2 hours in by BillyBobKrishna, on Flickr

Update 2/26. This is 4 more hours of drawing. Tim said he may erase some of this (!) because the drawing was "getting away" from him.


Forest King - 4 Hours In by BillyBobKrishna, on Flickr

Final pencils:


Forest King - Final Pencils by BillyBobKrishna, on Flickr

Inks started:


Forest King - Inks Started by jai_nitai, on Flickr

Further adventures in inking:


Forest King - More Inking Madness by jai_nitai, on Flickr

[jainitai]

Update added. 3rd pic down.

Tim, did you erase the initial drawing back a little bit before you started adding all of the detail?

[Tim]

yes i did and after doing some more that i'll send soon, i may again erase it

[jainitai]

Updated. 4th pic down in the original post. I like how little details get added as it goes along, like the two birds fighting over the snake.

[jainitai]

Final pencils added (last pic on the original post). I love the light rays shining through the trees in the background. Nice atmospheric detail.

[jainitai]

You can't see the detail because the JPG is so small (apparently Flickr has limits now), but I thought it'd be cool to see all of these images side-by-side:

[jainitai]

Modified final pencil image with a sharper scan that was "more true to the pencils", as Tim said.

[smile4chaos]

I love thees! Thanks Tim! I really appreciate the fact that you are allowing us to see the works progress as you do them.

[youngskitz]

Very cool progression of work.

[jainitai]

Tim recently started the inks on this piece. Updated above.

[jainitai]

More inking insanity above.