Enraged Ronto - Edge of the Empire: Suns of Fortune - Process

Keeping the Star Wars heavy content on the blog going... Back in February I shared with you my work from the Star Wars RPG supplement, Suns of Fortune. Today I have for you the process that went into on of my piece appearing in the book, the Enraged Ronto. So that we are all on the same page, here is how the final piece turned out...

Enraged Ronto

© 2014 Lucasfilm, Ltd. TM Lucasfilm, Ltd. Under license to Fantasy Flight Games

As with most of my Star Wars work I have a ton of reference to work from. Some the this reference is park of my collection of... reference... that I have been collecting since... 1978, while other reference is easily acquired. For the Ronto I was already good to go and just looked to my Ronto figure and the work of Terryl Whitlatch who was responsible for designing the Ronto. With reference in hand I got started on some thumbnails...

Enraged Ronto - Thumbnails

© 2014 Lucasfilm, Ltd. TM Lucasfilm, Ltd. Under license to Fantasy Flight Games

I unusually produce a minimum of three thumbnails, but I felt like my I covered all my bases with these two. After all, it is a Ronto rearing up, no need to reinvent the wheel. Option A was the winner this time around and it was time to get started on the final drawing...

Enraged Ronto - Drawing

© 2014 Lucasfilm, Ltd. TM Lucasfilm, Ltd. Under license to Fantasy Flight Games

I was unprepared with how much fun it is to draw Rontos. I had just so much fun on this one I kind of didn't want to stop working on it. This excitement for drawing Rontos made it easy to complete the next stage. Back in March I shared with you the toned paper drawing on this Ronto. Here it is again for all your toned paper Ronto drawing needs...

Bucking Ronto

9 x 12

colored pencil on toned paper

Original "Enraged Ronto" © 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

The drawing was approved without issue and it was time to get started on the painting. Since this is an isolated figure piece it was really straight forward and the focus is just making a cool looking figure rather then controlling an entire environment. I just nine easy steps the Ronto painting came together... not really, but here is a look at the process steps and a handy dandy animated progression too...

Enraged Ronto - Process steps

© 2014 Lucasfilm, Ltd. TM Lucasfilm, Ltd. Under license to Fantasy Flight Games

Enraged Ronto - Animated process thingy

After submitting there was one note to adjust the front leg that is farthest from the viewer. It was a quick fix and due to the way I go about making my painting this change is permanently incorporated into the piece and there is no longer a clear before and after state. The change was to shift the leg a little closer in towards the body of the Ronto. You might notice a little shift in the foot during the animated progression, that is the revision edit. Here again is the final Ronto painting for you viewing pleasure...

Enraged Ronto

© 2014 Lucasfilm, Ltd. TM Lucasfilm, Ltd. Under license to Fantasy Flight Games

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

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