An Ogre Emerges

This was one of those pieces that came about almost randomly. A few days ago, I'd been fooling around with few custom brushes, just to see what kinds of patterns/textures would emerge. I liked the result and saved it for future reference.

Today, I got the idea to do an extreme close-up. I'd decided on a fantasy character, an ogre. I wanted to keep it cartoon-y, but with a fully rendered look. I remembered the texture that I'd created earlier and thought that I could use it as the basis of the ogre's skin texture.

I opened the file, added a layer, sketched a face and painted in the features.

I guess that my "lesson learned" from this would be to save more of my experiments. You never know when they'll come in handy.