The King’s Advisors.Acrylic and Acryla gouache on illustration board.This is the final piece f

The King’s Advisors.

Acrylic and Acryla gouache on illustration board.

This is the final piece for Warlords & Sellswords, one illustration for five cards that is meant to be sliced up individually but can be shown as one for promotional purposes, a la Magic: the Gathering’s panoramic lands. Each of these advisors care about different aspects of the army, and most of them represent the highest level unit of their type: the general who cares about soldiers, the engineer who cares about equipment, the witch who cares about other mages, the grizzled trainer who cares about one individual strong unit, and in the center, the king’s second in command who cares about the army as a whole. My goal with this piece was to have each section be suggestive of what each character did, down to background details, and also to continue to highlight diversity, as I have with all the other pieces for the game. A side note about wizards - the skullcap was inspired by Merlin’s costume in Excalibur.

This was a long, but rewarding project, and I learned a lot from it. And best of all, the client is happy!