Monday Morning Monster; A Scary Warrior Guy

I was originally going to do a centaur from the original Monster a Day sketches, but I thought I'd try a new technique and decided to work from a looser sketch instead.  I quite like the centaur drawing and would like to work it up into a painting that actually looks like the line art.  So here's "Scary Warrior Guy" instead.

This guy came from a sketchbook doodle so sketchy that I do not even show the original here.  The challenge was to paint with my brush at 100% opacity instead of the 20 to 45% that I usually use, and I thought that a weak drawing would give me more impetus to strike boldly and obliterate the line art.

On the other hand, I think better with a pencil than a brush, and the weak drawing kept evolving in production.  It is hard to know when a piece is done if you're not altogether sure where you're going with it, and this monster wandered over to my default setting, "probably cool to a 12-year-old geek boy."

Things that I have concluded are probably cool to 12-year-old geek boys are monsters, zombies, random dismemberment, really big fangs and other spiky bits, crazy big weapons, impractical armor, explosions, and gi-normous hooters.  So really, this piece could be much, much more disturbing.