This was a concept created for the Demon Prince ThunderDome over at http://www.conceptart.org
Iron Lore Entertainment(the company I work for) recently purchased the entire run of analog DVD's from Gnomon Workshop http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com. I just made it through the Iain McCaig set and wanted to create a character study in the same composition he demonstrates in the DVD's. A body study and a head study.
As far as any other influence with the direction I took, just over a year ago I turned down an offer to work on Prince of Persia Warrior Within. This was extremely hard for me to do because it’s been a dream of mine to work on a game like that. I just wanted to give him a bit of a feel of that series.