Here’s a first image (well, aside from sketches and scraps) of a second character from The Curse of Steel. This is Drothan the Silent, younger son of a clan chieftain of the Tremara people, and eventually Krava’s primary love interest. Not that the two of them are going to have an easy time of it, getting their relationship started.

As with the images I’ve been producing of Krava, this one started with me selecting a Daz Studio character model and tweaking its parameters – in this case, scaling the character model up by about 8% and ratcheting up the “bodybuilder” settings to get a guy who’s big and muscular. The selection of hair and clothing went a lot faster this time since I already had some of the assets I wanted in my personal catalog. I seem to be climbing the learning curve with respect to using Daz Studio effectively.

At this point, I think I’m just about ready to start setting up the render that’s going to provide the cover image for the novel. A few more days of work and this part of the project will be finished.