Fan Art of Diablo 3 Barbarian

Hey guys. Recently I made a fanart piece for an art contest ran by Blizzard, a video game company, where you had to portray a protagonist from their upcoming ARPG Diablo 3 (great games, check them out if you haven't already) I wanted to do some kind of fan art tribute to my favorite PC games for some time, and now seemed like the right moment.
I'm aware that my art style and "technique" isn't exactly what the gaming industry would consider to be prize winning material, not to mention that some of the guys that do fantasy and sci-fi stuff for a living are waaaay out of my league. What I'm trying to say here is that I did it for my own personal amusement.

Since the deadline was looming in, I had only three days to work on it, so I couldn't put all the little details and attain the polish that I wished, but that can be done later, so no worries on that front. Considering I never actually painted armor and stuff like that before, it turned out ok-ish in my opinion, or at least bearable.

When I get my preliminary drawings scanned, I'll go trough my thought process behind creating this work and talk in detail about it. I hope you like this (almost) finished piece!

I present you the female Barbarian.

Barbarian