Here's my piece for fantasy-xchange's March round. March was a sketch exchange, but I decided to include some flat colors to make the sketch a bit more interesting. Plain sketches are a bit boring sometimes. :P

Anyway, I chose to draw dragonmarkaleb's awesome Yenith (werehyena) character, Neven, in his human form! The stripes aren't tattoos but are actually markings left over from his hyena form. I have such a soft spot for fantasy humans like him, you guys don't even know. >.>

Dragonmarkaleb mentioned that Neven is trained to use many different weapons, so here he is practicing his sword fighting techniques. I wanted to include his shirt but buttoned shirt + outstretched arms = not a good look. So, uh, let's just assume he lost his shirt somewhere or something. XD

I hope you like it, dragonmarkaleb!

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ART INFO
Art © 2012 by  aboveClouds
Neven belongs to dragonmarkaleb (on deviantART)

Special thanks to ashley-lee and silvac (both on deviantART) for critiquing this piece while I was working on it.

Pose reference: http://ladydove7-stock.deviantart.c.....ord-1-72795629
Background textures: http://night-fate-stock.deviantart......ture-169259436 http://eruustock.deviantart.com/art/510-254996927 http://eruustock.deviantart.com/art/563-255018914