Black Templar Lieutenant

After the last journal, I finished up the arm of the jacket and had worked out how I wanted the leather jacket to look.

I followed the same process for the rest of the jacket for the remainder of the jacket. I built up a prussian blue basecoat and overlaid it with a stippling effect to build highlights towards the light source.

As you can see above, I also got the fur coat laid in. I put a basecoat of burnt umber down and then drybrushed a mix of yellow ochre and burnt umber to build up a highlight.

From there I finished up the rest of the leather on the main body, this was done with a base of dark green, building up highlights on the high points of the leather. I then used a similar recipe to the wrist band and shoulder armour to build the leather up around the belt.

I then worked on the raven, I started off underpainting it with a very diluted dark purple glaze, I then drybrushed it with a mix off prussian blue and art black, trying to keep some of the glaze coming through. I finished up with a drybrush highlight of the previous black/prussian blue mix combined with vanilla white.

With that the main body was complete. You can see below that I pushed the highlights on fur shawl up higher on the shoulder closest to the light.

Finally to finish off I had to do the staff. Unlike the box art I didn't want to do an OSL from the staff. Instead I based it with burnt umber using an airbrush, I then went in and drybrushed the staff with yellow ochre. Finally I drybrushed moss green onto the more leafy textures to build the idea of a mossy staff.

With that I finished up the bust, I varnished it and got my usual post job photos done. I really enjoyed revisiting this model, it was great to finally finish up a project from so long ago. All I need to do now is print a plinth for it and get it mounted to join the others on the display shelf.