This gladiator is Marco Valerio Hispánico, character that many will know to have been interpreted by Russell Crowe in "Gladiator" of Ridley Scott. Knowing this I tried to create a new character and not to portray R. Crowe, I wanted to make a man very strong and with Iberian features (¿? :D), brown skin, brown hair, dark eyes…
I decided that the illustration had to have an epic aspect but without resorting to a fight scene. At first I considered drawing the moment in which the gladiator enters the Coliseum but finally I thought that drawing the moment in which he has already beaten the opponent, and looks at Caesar waiting for the verdict of the thumb, could be equally epic and also could resolve as a moment in which in the scene does not have to see either the Caesar or the rival.