/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7171426
Swanson's a guy who's just exhausted. He's been king for nearly forty years now, and all the while he's been trying to keep a kingdom running on exhausted coffers, pilfered by the former king and those who made out like bandits after that former king had a debilitating stroke. Swanson navigates around sanctions and other things damaging to his country with the help of a natural resource that could very well support the world's first ever flying machine. Swanson has won people over with his calm, stoic and focused demeanor, not at all like the last king. He's kind, even if he doesn't show it with his face. And he hopes that this flying machine will be his ace in the hole to prevent his kingdom from getting cut up like a cake for the others waiting for it to collapse.

He walks with a limp because when the stroke-addled king, in his sole act of selflessness and pride for his kingdom, declared Swanson king before dying from another stroke. Others who were hopeful really didn't like that, so they attacked Swanson in the middle of the knight, with one injuring his leg so bad it looked like it was going to have to be amputated.

He's 7'1" and nearly sixty, so while he moves slowly, he's decked out with plenty of magical relics that give him mobility and insane power. His gestures are slow and measured.

Glad ya like the design - I can't be bothered to take the designs too seriously, I do want an element of whimsy to everything.

>>3335128
I only tend to post on 4chan, and I have posted on /ic/ before, but that was years ago. I've come back a little smarter and a little more skilled than I was, so this thread was to test the waters and see where I was at.

Here's some more Swanson, the main antagonist, although really he's more of an anti-hero. Just an old, tired king who's trying to undo the damage his predecessors caused, tasked with handling an army that's grown too big and unsustainable for its own good, and doing his best to make the nation of Tartaros' inevitable downfall to be the least painful it can possibly be. He's kind, patient, and understanding, and is of course loyal to his own country. He has no choice but to continue militarizing in spite of having no money for it, because it's their last chance at making some sweet trade/political deals with the other scared nations in their favor. And Tartaros is poor in resources.