King of the Rats

Hi friends!

I would like to share with you this painting that I have recently finished.
I would also like to tell you a few things about this work.
Perhaps, some of you know who the King of Rats is, but for those who don't know yet, here is a short explanation:

Charles Hoskinson is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of Cardano, which are both blockchain platforms. Is Charles who calls himself "The King of Rats", so there is no problem in using this nickname to refer to him.

This is the final result of my work.

First of all, I started drawing the throne. This should represent greatness, solidity, and richness.
This is my drawing for the throne. In a previous post, I showed some steps of the drawing process. I leave you the links at the end of the page.

Here the throne is finished, a big construction to represent greatness, with stone carved on both sides to represent solidity, and in the structure a lot of gold to represent wealth, richness.

The next step was to draw the character. Here is a drawing of the throne with the character seated. Here you can see the portrait of Charles characterized as a rat and also dressed as a king. At the top of the throne, the symbol of Cardano.

This is the sketch I made for the portrait and the photo of Charles I used as a reference.

I made some rodent study drawings to try to draw Charles's face with certain rat features.

I show you here some stages of the process of drawing the character's face.

This is a rough representation of the character.

This is another sketch of the character where I changed Charles's face, which looks like a cartoon, to a rat face looking straight ahead. I lost the resemblance but I gain in personality, this seems to be more interesting.

Here is the first sketch of the rat face.

Here is the finished character sitting on the throne. At this stage, I made everything closer because there was a lot of useless space around.

The final step is the background. I thought about making something big, majestic but uninhabited, an ideal place for rats. A large, thick wall that looks like a broken ogive seemed like a good option to me.

Behind the walls, I drew mist to get an ambiance mystical, mysterious and dark at the same time.

Here I have drawn a ray of light that falls on the Cardano logo to make it more attractive.

The final touches: I gave the light beam a bluish tint, darkened the front a bit, and drew glasses on the character's face.

I leave you here, the previous posts related to the drawing of the throne.
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@jorgevandeperre/drawing-a-throne
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@jorgevandeperre/coloring-by-blocks
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@jorgevandeperre/the-throne-digital-painting

I hope you liked it and that it can be of use to someone.

Have a very nice day!