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Women in combat!
The Warrior and orcs
Hello! In this opportunity, we are going to I have looked for images of orcs from
draw an illustration where we will see a movies like The Lord of the Rings, and also
powerful warrior who is ready to jump into spears, armor and other strange and
battle, carried on a shield by her soldiers. rather fantastic genre weapons, such as
Perhaps she is the powerful weapon that those commonly seen in video games. Also,
this army has. chain mail, medieval type, to protect the
The orcs charge her with strength and body of our heroine.
ferocity; she has a serene look, not at all
exalted, as if the success of the battle
depended on that calmness.
Well, here we go...
Planted basic scheme.

In this scheme we place the heads, directions, as the weapon of the

Step 1
and the main directions of the warrior on what will be the shield.
bodies, with their extremities and The volume of the shapes is not yet
their joints. Also, some important visible...
 Now we add mass to the forms and
we begin to perceive the volume of
Step 2
the bodies. We also added some
weapons of the warriors that would
be behind the two main orcs. This
step, as I said before,
fundamental, because in the next
one, everything becomes more
complex and it will be the step that
will take us the most work. This
second step is the mainstay of
everything that will have to be filled
is with fine details.
Attention! There was no magic in
the middle, there was a lot of work
time. Here I stop for a long time to
work on every detail, I use the
reference photos, plus my
imagination; and I try to put all the
meat on the grill. In fact, the pencil
work is the part I enjoy the most, and
the one I concentrate on the most. I
usually solve everything here, to
leave it without doubts for the later
inking. If the previous step, the 2nd
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one, doesn't have a good base, in this
instance I won't feel confident. You
will notice that there are some
strokes with black pencil... When I
have some doubts about what I have
already polished, I take a black
pencil and make a second polishing
on top of it.
 Hands to the ink!
With an outlining brush and
Step 4
Chinese ink, I begin to draw with
thicker lines the first planes, and
then I will refine their thickness as
I go inking what is in later planes.
In the image we see the orc in the
foreground already outlined, but
also the face of the warrior, this is
because I need to define areas that
are important to me, to feel
confident in the journey.
After several hours, the image is as resolved as possible for later
complete in the inking. I have digitizing. I also use rulers when I

Step 5
helped myself with fine markers, have to do things like the spears or
as well as a good brush. And I have the blades of the swords. The blue
made corrections with white pencil...
tempera. I try to leave the image
 I erase it with the computer, in
Photoshop. When I digitize the
I hope you
liked this tutorial.
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image, raising the contrast, I take
the illustration to pure black and Greetings! Diego Aballay.-
white. And that's it! The image is
ready to be colorized.
 The Warrior
and orcs
Repeat each step of the process and you will easily master its
construction. I advise you to make two more copies of each sheet to
make your practice more intense and productive. after completing this
exercise continue with the next part until the drawing is complete.

Step 1
 The Warrior
and orcs
Repeat each step of the process and you will easily master its
construction. I advise you to make two more copies of each sheet to
make your practice more intense and productive. after completing this
exercise continue with the next part until the drawing is complete.

Step 2
 The Warrior
and orcs
Repeat each step of the process and you will easily master its
construction. I advise you to make two more copies of each sheet to
make your practice more intense and productive. after completing this
exercise continue with the next part until the drawing is complete.

Step 3