Orcus: The Process (Parental Guidance Suggested)

+Jason Chapman asked me to illustrate my version of Orcus, the God of the Underworld.

The vile creature whose fat bloated body sits atop the legs of a goat and whose bat like wings can barely carry his stinking carcass around. The Defiler, the horn headed devil himself.

This is where it all started.

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I started with his belly, as this is basically a circle and worked from there to fill in the details. His boobs/chest I wanted to have look like they were just waiting to fall off over the giant belly.

His legs I wanted that thick curly goat fleece type look, and I sketched it in as curls for now. 

Orcus goes nowhere without his trusty skull mace. However, I wanted my version to be huge, and while the skull mace is traditionally drawn with just one skull, I envisioned his mace to be made of multiple. 

His head was next, and after checking out some big horned sheep photos on google, I was set with the way the horns come off of their head. Sketched in the face and gave him a huge set of trapezious muscles to support his horned head, I moved onto the wings. 

His wings are like those of a bat, and I have drawn them many times, but his are supposed to be smallish for his form, so I sketched them in next. 

I shipped the rough off to +Jason Chapman asking him if he wanted to keep the balls or not and he gave me the green light. 

Here is the fully black and white version.

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For the final version I detailed in the goat fur legs, and fixed the proportion of both feet to fix that up. Jason wanted a cigar thrown in his mouth and the "Metal" horns being formed by his right hand, so I raised his arm, and rocked him out. 

The wings I changed dramatically from the sketch, gave them a bit more fullness, and detailed in the boney horns at the tips and bends of them. I also added the curly goat fur where they attach to his back. 

I reworked the mace as well, making it larger than the sketch, and showing multiple rows of skulls that form the head of it. Holding it the way he is, I fixed the fat folds around where it is resting against his belly, and added some details to the shaft as well. 

I added in some definition to his abdomen, and chest, as well as his muscled arms, and goat legs. 

A quick rocky ground and he was ready to be presented. 

I worked next on the greyscale version. 

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Putting my trusty Prismacolor Neutral Grey Art Markers to good use, I shaded him in working up from 10%-40% as usual, paying particular attention to where the light was coming from, in this case generally from the front-right, casting shadows to the rear-left (as the viewer sees this).

I really darkened in his wings, as those would be covered with a dark leathery like hide. 

Overall I am pleased with this one. It was fun to do. 

Thanks for looking, comments always welcome.