CE - Selvetarm

Selvetarm is Lolth's champion from Forgotten Realms
(here's a link to his wiki [link] )

A little about him:
He often showed himself as a "large spider with the head of a drow male"
He's mainly worshiped by drow male, but a handful of females worship him as well, and is depicted in his symbol as a spider with a mace and a sword
He was killed by Eilistraee

About this picture;

My husband keeps arguing with me that he's carrying a flail, not a mace, but I have to point out that a morning star has been considered both, so it counts

I tried to make him look vicious, as if he's about to attack an intruder, showing off both of his weapons, and the body of a few different spiders together, with the main one being a tarantula.

I was not allowed to show Lolth in the picture, so instead I tried a different approach. The light shaped as a spider in the background signifies her. Since light is a "weakness" for drow, I decided to shape it like a spider, barely connecting the two to show that he does not like his connection to her, but is instead trapped by her.

Why I picked him;
I wanted Lolth tbh, but I really like selvetarm as well. his story seems so awesome (well except for the dying to a mortal part)

Reference Art Used;
Though this was all done by hand, i did use a bit of reference, the most of which was in the book "Anatomy for the Artist" by sarah simblet
Other than that, here are some links to my references
[link] - muscles
[link] - arm pose (nude warning)
[link] - rocks
[link] - body and legs
[link] - facial expression
[link] - ANOTHER SPIDER <3
[link] - the handle on the morning star

~DL for full size~


Sorry for the long read, thank you for viewing!
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ps; process