Masahiro Ito is probably best known in the West for his work on the Silent Hill video game series, especially the iconic Silent Hill 2, on which Ito served as both art director and monster designer.
The video below demonstrates Ito’s artistic process for creating the sketch above.
In a collaboration promoting the Japanese theatrical release of Warcraft, a 2016 film based on the long-running MMORPG by Blizzard Entertainment, illustrator Masahiro Ito has created an original sketch of Durotan, the Orcish leader of the Frostwolf Clan.