Iorek Byrnison - ChoW #63

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Some work for ConceptArt.org's Character of the Week exercise. This week's topic was one of the armored bears from Pullman's His Dark Materials series. I've never read it, but I gave it a shot anyway because I enjoy getting my butt kicked ;) All the entries and discussion can be found here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=92261

Here's a preview of mine:





Here's the original ink and watercolor:




And the finished image, colored in Photoshop. I actually prefer the original, I think.