C.O.W. #150 Lich Dragon Boss Monster -- Posting WIPs thread

[Menelaos]

Well, my apologies for the quality of the photo, however, I just found out my scanner no longer works...Anyway, don't know if I'll finish this work (I'll try real hard tomorrow), but wanted to share my concept nevertheless.

This sketch/wip depicts the "Rise of the Lich Dragon". The great army of Prathor marched into the swamps of Dehenoth to prevent the Evil (mind the capital E) dragon Kraskoth from gaining Lich-dom. As soon as the valiant knights saw the Deadlights (ayum, inspiration from Stephen King's It) in the dragon's eyesockets their souls were taken...giving Kraskoth the strength and power to turn it into the Lich...

[darkly]

Looking good everyone! I'm especially lichin', I mean likin' dwinbotp's and mr jack's. Some tough comp!

Here's my finished sketch...

[SaintLConcept]

hey guys , first COW yey! but just read the topic yesterday and cant miss this one ,,,hopefully can finish on time since i have to go to work *sigh*, well here's mine dont really have the 'lich' thing but nevermind, and please be brutal since my digi painting do suck

[DeathByChris]

Im starting to wish I experimented more with the anatomy. oh well theres still alittle time left.

[meganite]

Lich Dragon wip 3. I think his front right arm needs some help. I'll probably put the claws closer on a new layer or something. Crits please!!! O_O I really want to nail the black and white before I add color (though I recognize some of contrast is color contrast)

[Steve Marworthy]

A little further along. I need to come up an interesting background before i start to get the details in

[insubstantial]

yesterday this cow accroached my full attention^^
its deffiately a really nice topic.

[VegasMike]

Hi everyone! Great work and awesome topic, had to get in on this! Comments and crits always welcome.

[pahavasa]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Feedback still welcome as always.

Getting close to the final version.

[Mr--Jack]

slam slam slam!
I'm about to be off to bed and I'm not around tomorrow so I've got to put this up now; I'll comment on everything in the poll some lovely work this week though!

I kept it fairly simple, I guess, nothing too original with the dragon side of things, but I had a lot of fun with it, so that's all good. (I was tempted, but steered clear of the 'glowing blue/green energy life-energy' sort of thing).

(I'll put this up in finals now, but I might check here tomorrow morning if there are any crits and all )

[wanwan]

hey pahavasa,

the hands have gone! I loved that bit, but I can totally understand why you opted for figures to denote scale. lovely work, would love to see the end result!

[sepu]

some changes, still working on her.

[.Elec7ro]

here my final work:

[annarepp]

Hi everyone! This is my first post here I am a traditional illustrator, but I've been watching this forum for quite a while and I really wanted to try doing some concept art. I know I am very late to submit to this topic and I will probably will not have time to finish, but I thought I'd post some of my sketches. I would really appreciate any comments!!! What I tried here, is to create a different form of dragon, something less traditional, so one turned out more like a basilisk. For the second dragon I had this idea of wings made of fire... Are any of the ideas worth going forward with? Thank you!

[pahavasa]

wanwan, yeah, unfortunately the hands had to go - I liked them too, but in this case they just didn't work. Maybe I'll use them in some other piece later on!

The final:

[wanwan]

pahavasa: sweeeeeeeeeeet!

[blobs]

Oh mrJack.. loving that!

Not feeling mine at all at the mo, adjusting it as I go.

[Steve Somers]

BLOBS, I think yours is coming along quite nicely... the head especially.. plenty of personality like a pissed off, crotchety old man... with random flakes of charred crud falling off him..

[Steve Somers]

Here's a little rundown on my steps for this... comments are very welcome since I'm still pretty new to my little pen tablet....

[Arbinn]

Been away for almost the whole week so mine is still just a rough sketch. I liked the design of the dragon in my previous sketch but it was kinda boring as a picture so I drew a new one.

Hopefully I can finish this in time tomorrow.

[lemming-clone-]

Shoooot, there's a lot of great stuff in this thread.
Nothing too original here. Mostly having fun.

[MasterStryke]

bonethorns on the back? or wings?

what you wanna do next lemming-clone-?

btw: looks interesting yet

[merlemage]

lich crawler

oops i forgot to post this wip
great work everybody!

[blobs]

Cheers Steve

My comfort colours are green/brown/orange, so I decided to whip it up half way through and use green/cyan.. eek! WELL out of my fluffy cotton ball there! lol
So here's where I am so far..

[Michael Jaecks]

All righty. Today is the deadline which means you have until around noon Saturday CST to get those finals in.

You guys are really rockin' this topic. I'm very happy to see both the variety of design and style this round. I love it when people take a very classic type topic and give it their personal spin. Very cool.

SO you've got just over 24 hours to finalize or refine your entries. Keep 'em coming!

[Icecold]

I know that it's already too late for me to make it on time, but the topic is so exciting that i will finish this on my own i think.
Here's a little concept sketch i've made.

[meganite]

I dunno if I'm gonna finish. I guess if we have until noon Saturday (10 here I gotta remember)...haven't had a chance to work on it though, and probably won't until then. Sad day =( Oh well, better luck next time, right? I need practice getting beyond the sketch phase, to me a sketch is just as compelling as the final pic. (I guess i'm an impressionist at heart?). Would mine be excluded by just having a more impressionistic style? I got in trouble before for having one that was "not finished" which I did in a more impressionist style.

[bhenart]

So this is the first time I've ever posted anything on ConceptArt.org (I hope I don't mess up). I couldn't help but get in on this challenge it was just too awesome. Here's my WIPs, hope you enjoy

[Arbinn]

Friggin' awesome bhenart. I like blobs' one too.

Here's my current WIP. Still trying to get it done today but I'm not sure if it'll make it in time. :X Hopefully the deadline won't be that strick this time and lasts - if not 24 hours - at least 6-12h longer.

I'm thinking of some kind of name for it. Currently it's just generic Runelord.

[Arbinn]

Well, couldn't finish in time (it's friday midnight here soon and I'm quitting drawing for today).

Current WIP. Greyscale is almost ready. If the voting hasn't started when I wake up I finish this as the first thing I do in the morning.