Art Challenge 5 - 15th-28th March - "Vicious"

This is an unfinished one, I'm afraid. I want to be able to put a lot of time and effort into painting this and the art challenge doesn't really allow for that unless it's all I do, so this is just the drawing, pre-watercolour.

It's a fanart piece of the Fallout games. I couldn't think of the word "vicious" without "deathclaw" coming to mind. They're renowned for it.

I used two screenshots as reference - one for the main pose which was a deathclaw in the quarry in New Vegas (the alpha male, I believe), and another one because I couldn't make out what the hell was going on with their teeth, which I think is from Fallout 3. It's still not very accurate, probably, but I'm past caring. They don't kill with their teeth anyway and it still looks mean.

I apologise for the utterly awful photo; it's too dark here to get a decent one. If I remember I'll retake it in daylight. Unfortunately it's too big for me to bother scanning it until it's finished. It's the biggest thing I've done so far (still not huge by art standards but the largest I usually work at is 10"x7") and will need to be scanned in parts and then put together digitally. I don't fancy doing that twice.

The painting will be completed for a goal in April. I'll probably upload progress photos to Twitter, as per usual. This is half my blog title - the broken dreams half - but I hardly ever draw things that aren't pretty flowers these days, so it was nice to exit the comfort zone and do something else. It's actually been quite fun to do.

The next art challenge starts on the 1st of April, so we have a little break from art challenges now, and the word is "ruin". End of the month recap in a few days and I'm still preparing a monster art post!