I just downloaded Krita, a free digital art software, today and started using it to design artwork for the SM Art Competition.

A stonsplitter orc's huge axe

This is my first digital art piece, and it took me way too long to make :p. It was done through an iterative process, starting with a sketch:

Then adding in color:

And finally value and detail:

This was all done on a mouse on my desktop PC, so it's quite sloppy. I'm hoping to get a drawing tablet soon to help improve the art quality. I'll also probably post another, more advanced piece later this week.

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