Viking Girl, 02939

[Ganryu Kojiro 507]

A Viking Girl sculpted by Bobby Jackson. She was a lot of fun to paint since she had a lot of canvas for freehand work. She is also my first serious effort at NMM, so that's a well I plan to return to.

 

I came to paint her when I asked my friends which model needed to get some love next. I presented a wizard, a ranger, and an armored lady fighter. One chimes in that she'd like to see the fighter (she being a practitioner of HEMA). Her boyfriend mentions something about boob armor. I said, no, she's got pretty normal armor. You want to see something egregious? THIS is egregious. My HEMA friend immediately says, "I'd like to change my vote." So here we are.

 

Here's the WIP thread for her. Here's my next piece.

[Glitterwolf 207665]

[sentinel 229]

The first standout to me was the cloak.  Man, all the designs with all of the folds looks to like it continued correctly.  Looks really difficult.  The hair and brown fur being similar colors, but different, are really well done.  The wood on the inside of the shield grabbed my attention also.  The whole thing is pretty darn cool.  Nicely done!

[Bustawolf 1886]

Nice knotwork!

[Ganryu Kojiro 507]

1 hour ago, sentinel said:

The first standout to me was the cloak.  Man, all the designs with all of the folds looks to like it continued correctly.  Looks really difficult.  The hair and brown fur being similar colors, but different, are really well done.  The wood on the inside of the shield grabbed my attention also.  The whole thing is pretty darn cool.  Nicely done!

That was pretty intentional. I wanted most of her to have a warm, red tone that I could offset with green grace notes. That's actually why the cloak ended up in that soft gray: I needed something neutral.

8 minutes ago, Bustawolf said:

Nice knotwork!

Thanks! The knots themselves weren't that tough once I'd laid down the outline in black (thanks, Reapercon freehanding class). Once I'd done that I could focus just on the task of putting the red where it needed to be and could leave the line breaks where they needed to be. You get a lot of bang for the buck, effort wise. Definitely something I intend to do more of.

[Rigel 10500]

Exquisite, especially the shadows and highlights!

[Ganryu Kojiro 507]

8 hours ago, Rigel said:

Exquisite, especially the shadows and highlights!

Thanks! I could only hear, "More contrast!" so many times before some of it sank in 

[Iridil 7070]

Wonderful freehand and shading on the cloak