Admittedly, one of my more prominant artistic favorites is Disney's Gargoyles. It was just a great show on most fronts, and featured some truly inventive character designs and plot threads. Sure, there was the occasional giant Oberon dressed like a reject from "The Birdcage" attacking New York City, but hell, even Batman had it's Clock King.

So what we have here is a pic that was drawn and colored pretty quickly, and specifically for the MGC (Monthly Gargoyles Contest, for the uninitiated). It was inspired in whole by the scene from "300" in which Leonidas stands in the face of a rainstorm holding up his sheild to...well, sheild him from the rain. In general it came out as well as I'd hoped it would, but its not without its flaws. Namely, that God-awful lightning.

It's my style in most cases to color things traditionally, i.e. not digitally. Prismacolor Markers on Bristolboard are my usual suspects, with color pencil highlights (the rain itself is all colored pencil) here and there. Took me YEARS to figure out a proper skin color for Goliath/Angela from Prisma's catelog, but I've settled on "cornflower".

So yeah, I'm pretty happy with this. His torso isn't completely straight, and given the chance I'd make his arm do something more interesting. But I do love how the hair and head in general came out, so it ain't too shabby.