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Thanks alot! No tutorial yet unfortunately but in the future I´ll probably have more of that. For this piece I remember I started out with a very rough pencil sketch and then started painting the shoulderplates of Lich-king, it´s easier to get the rest of the painting done once a little part in the picture is rendered well, at least for me. I often use Color Dodge for glowing light effects, perhaps too much sometimes. Soft light and Hard light are good for coloring the basic tone but I find that you need to paint ontop of it to make it look good.
Interesting, Detailing small part to get general visualization (is that right?) that would be unthinkable for me, oh by the way one more question (if you don't mind), do you deal with background later (when tyrael and Lich-King fully rendered), or early phase in your painting (rough sketch, color, to "guide" the rendering of both tyrael and Lich-King)? your background and foreground looks "connecting" each other makes it really alive, something i really struggle to achieve, maybe i can learn something from you, thanks and sorry for a lot of questions 
and i'm really looking forward to your tutorial, new fans here 
and i'm really looking forward to your tutorial, new fans here Yes, exactly. The background came along as I kept painting, I started off with the clouds behind lich king, and it took alot of optimizing into the very end. It´s like tracing or following footsteps sort of, one step leads to another and you just keep going until all the puzzle parts fall into place. One thing leads to the next. It´s the same thing with muscle anatomy, if you know one muscle it´s easy to remember which muscle is next to it and so forth. No problem at all, happy I can be of help.
Wow, Thank you very much, I've really learnt new things and i think i start to understand how painting works, will definitely try everything you've told me now, i hope you don't mind if i seek another insight from you later ... and by the way good luck for your submission, 
... and by the way good luck for your submission,