Mage and her retinue

"A bad mage is said to be worth a company of pikemen, a good one- an army." - High Councillor of Crezenza.

Hello!

Seems like I haven't posted anything for a while so I thought I'd get something up here. I've been working on coloring some commissions and practicing working on comics fully digitally using my Cintiq. This piece is one such practice, related to a comic idea I've been thinking about. This idea is about a fantasy world where mages can create and control magical constructs, golems and use them for their own needs- usually as mercenaries attached to an army of some of the many petty lords and small kings ruling the many city-states around where the story would begin. There are larger empires where lucrative trade can be made in border wars and campaigns by a skilled mage who knows their trade. The golem on this pic is one of the largest, as they are usually not much larger than a big human- 1,8- 2,5 meters or so. Favoured anti-golem- weapons in this world are siege engines, ballistae and the like, and the emerging technology of the gunpowder cannon. This has of course led to some mages(who can afford it) to armour their creations.

Cintiq tablet, Photoshop CS6.