Today I wanted to create another inhabitant of the wasteland. This time a little bit larger than yesterdays Stormling. The Rock Trolls of the wastes are not the subtlest of creatures, they fill their simple lives with eating or throwing large boulders and threatening anyone who comes near, they are not the brightest of creatures but they more than make up for that with their raw strength alone.
In the initial sketch I wanted to create the appearance of large stone plates forming over the creatures body as a form of protection, I also wanted to make clear the size of the creature and in order to do that I posed it to interact with the environment as well as including something at close to human scale. I wanted to create the impression that the creature was surprised by what it as seeing to reinforce the idea of its limited intelligence.
In the final drawing I feel like I had some success implying a sense of weight through the pose as well as the variation in line weight.