Rincewind Pencil Sketch Shaded
The Colour of Magic (or The Color of Magic, if you insist on being from this side of the pond...) is the first "proper" Discworld novel I read. I had fortunately stumbled into some of the "Young Adult" novels when purchasing and reviewing Christmas gifts one year, and thought perhaps the recipient might enjoy some more works by the same author. I always review books I'm gifting first, to avoid any nasty suprises. (Like wildly inappropriate content or, more frighteningly, a really crappy read.) Well, instead, I accidentally hooked myself. (And incidentally decided to wait until said young adult was slightly more adult before I gave him one of the adult novels.)
Now, it's a few years later, and I've started gleefully forcing him to read the novels share Discworld novels with him, having exhausted the supply myself. Happily, the recipient enjoyed them every bit as much as I did, and in fact, immediately began begging for more. Having read them all, I agree with the general consensus that the first Discworld novel isn't quite the best, by a long shot, but it was my introduction to the Discworld proper and Rincewind will always have a special spot in my heart. The above is not too terribly far off from how I pictured him while reading the start of the novel. Not quite so scarred and battered as he would be when Twoflower is done with him, but still a little shabby. I will, of course, always picture him as sounding like Eric Idle, thanks to the Discworld games. The pose above came out a bit like Rincewind looking at Twoflower like he's bananas while Twoflower explains what he's up to in The Broken Drum. Kind of a "Who is this madman in the flowery shirt?" look.
Not too horrid for a first stab at Rincewind, I guess. Done in various pencils, then shaded a tad, and heavily based upon several of Paul Kidby's lovely drawings, which highlight the "Shaggy from Scooby Doo-ness" of our hero.