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Warmup_20121112 - The Lord Rulerby *Inkthinker

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"Those are very hard to replace..."

Today's warmup doodle became something I wish I had done for The Mistborn Adventure Game; a vignette portrait of The Lord Ruler, immortal god-emperor of The Final Empire.

Not canonized... while I do draw official Mistborn work for Brandon Sanderson and Crafty Games, I'm working off the reservation here, drawing on my own time. That being said, I went by the text same as did when working on the RPG, so it shouldn't be any less accurate than those were.

Got a little closer here in terms of the technique I was aiming for during the RPG work too, something I wish I'd worked out sooner. Silhouettes are more important than I had realized when trying to mimic illustration techniques from a hundred years ago and blend 'em with modern influences.

Tablet and Manga Studio. "The Lord Ruler" is a feature character in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series of novels.

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Updated with a few minor changes... a more extensive pattern in the vest, lace at the cuffs, and frogging in the jacket so that it be a little more fancy, befitting the deathless despot of a dying dominion.

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~stardrag Mar 7, 2013

I JUST read this today, finished that book too! And when this scene happened I thought it was so cool.

*Inkthinker Mar 7, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Get on to book 2! It's even better, says I.

~stardrag Mar 9, 2013

No worries! I actually gave the first book a not so good score, but I'm totally going to keep going with this series and your pic just reminded of how badly I want to.

*Inkthinker Mar 11, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

His earliest stuff is definitely the roughest (Elantris, the first Mistborn book, Warbreaker), but the latest stuff is my favorite. Working on "The Wheel of Time" definitely made a difference, and how could it not?

~stardrag 6 days ago

It's weird since I went backwards with his works. I started with: Way of Kings, then sort of skipped around Elantris before reading Mistborn and now I'm loving The Allow of Law.

*Inkthinker 2 days ago Professional Digital Artist

So long as you read the Mistborn series in order, you can't really go wrong... Each individual world in the Cosmere is, so far, self-contained, so it's not required to read them in publishing order. Though it helps to recognize the cameos in Kings when you've read the other Cosmere books, so you might want to re-read the Interludes there with a fresh eye.

Did you catch The Emperor's Soul? That's a short novella that takes place on the same world as Elantris, though on a different continent and separate from those events.

~Stonewarder Feb 19, 2013

This is amazing. Waay different from how I imagined him, but everyone to themselves, eh? I love the nonchalant of Mr. Lord Ruler in this picture. If you've read The Way of Kings, you can see my name shows how much of a fan I am of Sanderson. He's a genius, and so are you, sir.

*Inkthinker Feb 20, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

How did you imagine him differently?

I'm a little bit familiar with the Stormlight Archive.

~Stonewarder Feb 28, 2013

Very professional looking. Short, cropped hair almost military style. The clothing wouldn't be as smooth. He would have some resemblance of his "old days" (don't want to spoil anything) with some sort of fur clothing. Much broader in the shoulders and he would look much more a leader you could follow in war. Something like that.

*Inkthinker Feb 28, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Hmmm. So, the fun thing about the hair is that I only realized after I drew it that he doesn't specify the length at all, it could go either way. You might be interested to know that the concept art I did for the film (which hasn't been shown yet, to my knowledge) keeps his hair shorter (not short, though I did do a couple short-hair versions) and his coat is much more military in cut. I did try fur at one point, but they wanted a high collar instead.

So who knows, you might get a version closer to what you were thinking after all.

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