Ridged
Ridged is one of the most detailed animal portraits I’ve made almost since The Beast. It took over 18 hours to map out and then complete each individual ridge and callus on this rhino’s face and chest, and switching from that detail to the blending of the horn could almost be described as disorienting, but I wouldn’t trade the result for anything easier!
This is actually a piece that I first attempted back in high school, but for some unknown reason I never finished it. I found the beginning of the older piece on a much larger sheet of paper deep in my portfolio recently, and it reawakened the inspiration to finally complete it!