Pen sketching Chaos Jailer| Splinterlands art contest

Greetings everyone,
Here is my latest art work, it's a pen sketch I initially made for the 286th edition of the Splinterlands art contest. Although I later converted it to a digital painting. The painting was inspired by Chaos Jailer, a character from Splinterlands.

This was the reference I used.

My process

I started the work with pencil sketch of the pose I wanted to use for the art work.

Then I went further to detail out his body physique and cleaning up the lineart.

The next step was adding the details, like his rope, handcuffs and his large chain around his neck. Drawing the chain wasn't so easy for me as I find it so difficult to get the right shape of each link of the chain. Phew, but by the Grace of God, I was able to draw the chain well.

In the next step, I first outlined all this equipment with a pen so as to avoid mistakes with outlining his physique.

Then I finally outlined the whole sketch

My initial idea was to use my normal shading technique( linear hatching) for this work. So I used a pencil to signify the points of the sketch that would be shaded.

In this next step, i Started hatching the sketch.

Then I added a background, this was the final artwork. Although I later made a digital painting of it for the Splinterlands art contest.

I hope you like my process, Thank you.