A Viking style character design. Painted in Photoshop using my Wacom Intuos tablet.
Final Painting, I used some photo texture for the tattoos and metal roughness.
Pencil sketch. I used reference to get the pose correct, then added the armour and weapons.
Painted a background, blocked in the silhouette, started working on skin values.
Adjusted Hue/saturation and lightness to get the skin colour.