Of dungeons and gladiators

I recently finished watching the entire first season of Spartacus. Besides being incredibly violent, sometimes pornographic, and a little heavy-handed on the slow-mo, it's a good series if you can stomach it.

Overall, it has a pretty sweet graphic style with great image stills and moody scenes/epic fights. So I've started to do some practice paintings from the series, here are a few stills below-

 

 

I also finally finished the Dungeon Delve image! It, unfortunately, looks really really dull online and is actually a bit more vivid on my computer. But here it is-

 

I think I'm mostly satisfied with it...Her proportions are still funky and it looks over-worked. But it was a good practice nonetheless :)

On a side note: I found Justin Sweet's illustrations today, they're nice and atmospheric.