Renaissance Knight

Very nice painting of a very nice sculpt.  Thanks for sharing.

Regards,  Rick

Very nice figure and well done.

The next few lines are a few personal points and are not meant to distract from your work or be taken as criticism.
1.) Shading on the face is a bit to heavy for my liking.
2.) Stairs & column could use a bit more colour(darker) and more weathering.
3.) Gaps on the stairs are either too straight or not random enough, plus I feel a dark grey would have made a better groove colour(could be my monitor too).

Like I said I like it, but would have done a few things differently myself.
FYI, working on a few figs myself on the side (Fantasy & WW II).

This is my personal opinion of course, but than I tend to often work more on the backdrops than the figs/mecha that go into them.

You have a good eye Zen. Just so you know, I neglected to say that I haven't quite finished with the base and ground work yet, and I agree, both could use a few touch ups and weathering. The pictures seem a lot darker than the real thing, which may explain the heavy shadows on the face, but in real life, his face looked "washed out" so I made sure to emphasize the contrasts in his complextion. I appreaciate the feedback. Cheers;

Glenn

I like this figure a lot. The shadows of the face do look a bit extreme, but hey are a lot more pleasing to my eye than several very well done figures I saw at the Long Island show yesterday. I really like the work you did on the cuirasse and I'm blown away by the painting on the inside of his cloak. I work in 54 mm and not in this period so I have no idea on the accuracy but it a darn purty piece of work.

Thanks Al! Very high praise indeed. From my understanding, this fellow's outfit is more of a Renaissance masqurade costume or a parade uniform and didn't really serve any real practicle military purpose. In fact, I am lead to believe that many of the armour components would have been made from paper mache and painted to look like metal (or maybe gilded with gold leaf). So as you can imagine, uniformity of design was probably non-existant, and as varied as the imagination and pocket book of the wearer would allow.

But thanks again for your comments. I need to get out to some of those shows more often. I always find the work on display there to be very inspirational. If you make it out West, maybe I'll see you at SCAHMS this year. Cheers.

 

Glenn