Fairy king - Process WIP (Patreon)

I am planning  two complicated fantasy illustrations. One is  my own idea, and the second one is for a Gay fantasy novel book cover  commission.

So I'm sharing the process of how I come up with ideas, since you guys asked for more backstage.

It's not fandom  based, but I hope it might be interesting for you to watch how big and complicated illustrations come to life.

Here I work with the basic composition thumbnail, very roughly nrushing in the values and the main idea. I had other ideas tried out but they didn't work well for me so this is the one I believed to have some potential. 

Then I make a first sketch with very basic anatomy and shapes to define what is going to  be the subjects of the painting and the story.

Then goes a slightly better and finer sketch but is is definitely still a sketch. Not clothes yet, not details of the background. But now I have something  much better structured to work with on my next step which I will show you soon.