There are five varieties of gargun (“orc”) in HârnWorld, and all of them are very different from your average fantasy orcs. Biologically, they are closer to insects than to mammals with their egg-laying queens. Culturally, they are inherently violent and unstable. This illustration I did for the new HârnMaster Kethira depicts two of them: a smaller Gargu Arak (“streaked”) and a taller (and violent) Gargu Khanu (“black”).
This was also my first serious effort with Krita – the open source painting software. It was too short a test-run to become accustomed with it, and I was mostly working on a beat-up Lenovo Thinkpad, so there was a sudden lag every now and then. On iMac, it ran without hick-ups.
