Fantasy Art - Feren Warrior

Instead of spending the time to render this one in pencil, and then playing with it in Photoshop, I thought I'd stop at the line art on the physical version and then work on rendering in Photoshop instead.  As best as I can tell, learning to paint in Photoshop isn't any different from learning to paint with traditional media, just less messy.  I'm going to focus on rendering in grayscale for now -- one good value decision is worth ten good color choices.  One bad value decision can ruin ten good color choices, too.

Those who live on the edge of the wild lands must be on constant guard, for the Feren live by plunder.  However, the Feren have no interest in gold or silver coins.  They raid for food, for tools and weapons of metal, and for captives.  Yet no expedition against the Feren has ever secured the release of a single prisoner, nor is there evidence that the Feren eat those they take (although this is a popular theory among the ill-informed).  Those taken alive by the Feren are simply. . . gone.