Hazdar Stoneclamber
October 2007
Wacom Intuos 9×12, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, World of Warcraft

My World of Warcraft character, Hazdar Stoneclamber, standing in the snow outside of the dwarven capital of Ironforge.

The in-game character model did most of the hard work for this picture, but I think you’ll agree that I put my own recognizable stink on it. I drew this picture as a sort of depth-gauge; to see how many hours it took to draw a 500×500 portrait. In this case, it was three hours. My updated commission price for this level of picture is 25 dollars, so I made a little less than eight dollars an hour. So all in all, the experiment was a success, and I have another great piece for my portfolio.