Dragon Tiger Ox - Immortal/Forbidden Talents

Way way waay back in September time, I was approached to produce a lot of illustrations for an upcoming Pathfinder subsidiary sourcebook based around the subject of Anicent China. 

The rulebook has since went live - unfortunately the links for it are down at the moment strangely, but when they're back up I'll link it here. 

This was the eleventh illustration, and one for a Kickstarter stretch goal - The Immortal Clans and Forbidden Talents

The background, paraphrased, is that there are 4 clans, each rivaling one another, and each have their own specific talents and appearance, with colour schemes, history, and a swathe of clan specific talents. So I decided to paint two opponents from the White Tiger(?) clan and the Azure Dragon(?) clan, I can't remember, as this was quite a while ago. The key aspect of the White Tiger Clan is that they wield insanely large weapons, are covered in scars, and generally appear to be berserkers/barbarians in the Dragon Tiger Ox world. The Azure Dragon clan have the amusing quality that they slowly turn into trees over the course of their lives, so it gave me the opportunity to paint someone's skin melding into bark and branches, which was fun. 

Materials:
Intuos 4
Photoshop CS6

Time:
Painting: ~11 hours