Posted by Bluefalchion on 05 Aug 2020, 07:15
This was a very cool figure to paint. He has a lot of elaborate cuff-work and his jacket collar has a lot of complicated pieces to add interest. I also really enjoyed contrasting the brighter red of the coat with the darker, more brownish red of the sash.
I tried to give him the leather cuffs on the bottom of the trousers as pictured. I figured this guy had to slog through a lot of mud and tough terrain so he had better have some reinforcement or the bottoms of his pant legs would soon be in tatters.
For the face, I tried to use the technique of Roland Kupski, with a base of light flesh tones then going over that with very thinned down slightly greenish paint for the five o'clock shadow areas, very thinned down brownish red for the cheeks, and very thinned down English Uniform plus some brown for the shadowing on the forehead and underneath the eyebrows.
I have to be honest, I was not very happy with the final product. The figure was okay, but I found it very difficult to get a good picture of him. The detail looked better from pretty far away, and it gets a bit too muddled as you get a closer and closer look.
Then the voting took place, and it was my most lopsided win as Mr. X in two years. It just goes to show, you lose some of the duels with your very best work, and you can win some even when the figure did not turn out to be a favorite.