The Battle painting with progress video.

I often do a personal painting just to push my own limits and see what I am capable of. For me one of the most impressive artworks I see on illustration and concept art sites like Artstation, are paintings of epic battle scenes. They often stand out because they aren't as common as portraits or single character designs.

I had only done one before, years ago so I wanted to see what I could do now. I decided to paint it digitally in Photoshop. Creating an illustration of this size is really time consuming and intimidating if you try do it all in one sitting. I worked on it almost exclusively in my lunch hours over many weeks. Only a little each day but as the saying goes "You eat an elephant one bite at a time" (Hopefully a refrigerated elephant or you would almost certainly die of food poisoning). I learned that you just have to keep going when you're doing a painting like this and not be afraid of changing things as you go if it will improve the over all composition. It was a bit intimidating to get done but I'm very happy with the result.
I made a progression video of my process. In it you can see many my work in progress saves leading up to the final illustration.

Some closeups

Here it is printed really big, the only way you can really appreciate a scene like this :) Also, that's me! My other body is a Ferrari... I promise.

Thanks for reading,
Cheers,
Lynton