This digital painting was made as part of an assignment from SintLucas, my school here in the Netherlands. The goal was to improve on aspects you wanted to improve on, as well as feedback you might have gotten earlier in the year.

I started with the idea to do my favourite thing to do: creature and character design. So I decided to design both, as a rider and a mount. I wanted them to feel "coherent but different".

Eventually I decided I liked the idea of a warlord, using it's ferocious beast to herald it's armies to war. I decided to expand on this concept.

However, eventually I decided that this wasn't quite what I wanted. It was a cool character design, but that's all it was. I wanted to tell something about myself, so I started over.

After creating the sketch of the final product, I realised that this wasn't the story I wanted to tell. I connected my sketch to depression, which I used to suffer from. It represented the feeling of fear, of an upcoming battle you didn't know if you would return from yet had to fight anyway. 
This was not the story I wanted to tell. So I started again, for the last time.

At last I had come up with my piece. After a few composition sketches I found what I was looking for and sketched a bit more of the throne.

Pretty quickly I had a good idea of how it would look. And so I began with the final piece itself.

The Throne of Want I meant to be a representation of ambition. The throne was something you would strive for, it's human body as the expectations of the process of getting there and it's lovecraftian lower body as the true difficulty of the journey.

The fallen, the dark angelic beings where the remains of people who took the journey and failed, now only whispering of their journey and dissuading anyone trying with tales of failure.