This is the last "Art" challenge in the artist category of the Zealy campaign and my goodness, it's been a long ride. The reason why this was probably titled "Boss Slayer" is because that is the intent of the whole challenge; to be able to win at the end of the whole contest.
The instructions for this one is to Draw/Design/Create an image of a powerful Lion who just defeated a final boss
The end-result
It was difficult coming up with this concept since almost every entry I saw had the same element and I wanted to do something different. So what I did was to draw a man-lion that had just defeated a king Lion and severed his head, then held the high up in the sky changing with a great cry of victory with blood and gore dripping down.
This was a bit challenging because I had to draw this again from my imagination. The idea that a strong lion defeated a boss must come with an element of fierceness and brutality. This was the main reason why I created this concept. In the drawing, I decided to depict the boss slayer as an old and fierce lion king.
You can see from the drawing that he's wearing a crown, even though his head was already cut off and he was dead. The powerful lion who defeated him was also strong and this was depicted through his mighty biceps and sweat-dripping body.
Displaying victory must come with a loud gesture, especially when the battle and the opponent were worthy and the scuffle was mind-bending. In this challenge.
The drawing process was quite challenging. I decided to give an entry that's worthy of an NFT. The shadings were done by two different pencils and you could obviously see it from the dark and light shading.
I also decided to use a pencil to create the details. Coloring this one would take the details away, so I decided to leave it, especially if there's a chance that it might be digitized.
So here's the drawing process. Finally, the Zealy campaign comes to an end
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