A Quick Picture

a portrait of Zildor the Archmage

A bit more messing about with a portrait created using HeroMachine 3 and further manipulated by GIMP possibly needs some more work on the hat brim but good enough to publish as is without largely as I am still considering this and have other stuff to do for the forth coming Company of fools game on Thursday 

Quick tip if you use Heromachine to do a base colour scheme then do this its easier if you change the line colour to dark brown or one in the colour range you have chosen for that area as black is hard to blend in I find I left the lines on this image in black and they where more work than they needed to be or would have been otherwise.

Heromachine is here if you fancy a play 

a couple of other points 1 you can move images up and down the stack & put multiples of the same kind on an area but the default is one which means adding a second removes the first. I mean to do a bit of a tutorial article on this useful tool if I get the chance as its whilst not perfect the best thing I have found so far for the person who cant draw people & has not got the time to practice

Same picture with some more work on the cap and a decorative band around the base

The cap as a mater of interest is supposed to be one of there

even if its ridicule to see the characteristic shape front on as it is