Saber-tooth tiger demon (Balrog)

Another pencil drawing.
This one cames from a discussion about the Barlog that was realized for the animated version of The Lord of the rings (1978). Here the Barlog had a lion head and some sort of wings.
So I developed the idea and moved to something a bit more 'dynamic'.
The drawing is a bit more larger than the A4 aera of the scanner and, really, is more a test for the new pencils and skecth-book than anything else. The paper is rough drawing paper and, two sizes of pencils were used, usually I used just one size of pencil, but using a bigger one shortened significantly the time needed for the sketch.