The Giant's Prisoner! Final Hi-Res Painting (Patreon)

Here is the Dungeon Master Series illustration for March! I have also included a Process Guide for the image below. 

In the Process Guide you will notice that the image changed a bit from the initial concept. 

Originally, the figure in the cage had been a guy, and his angry girlfriend was the adventurer with the axe.  But I just couldn't get that figure to work as a girl, so I ended up giving that figure a mask and making the prisoner a girl.  I think it reads more clearly now and the viewer will get what's happening a lot faster, even though it leans a bit into some of the older cliches of the genre. I think it is better this way... but I will always be wondering about wether I could have pulled off the original composition... 

Anyway, it was a lot of fun to draw and paint! Here is a process guide to describe the Photoshop stages: