The Gladiator (Black Sun Miniatures)
This is my little journey down trying to extend a story. In my case, Alfonso Giraldes wonderful Gladiator painted earlier this year (https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/20149 ). I saw Alfonso's as a rough concept he was using as a demonstration in Augsburg earlier in the year. He told a story of painting a gladiator emerging from the darkness into the sun of the colosseum. So I wanted to paint the gladiator's adversary. This was a fun way of using someone else's concept to extend the story and build upon it. There's a lot of skin on this bust so I wanted to give him a bronzed Polynesian aesthetic. I chose Dwayne Johnson/The Rock as my muse.
Now I am at the end I kind of wish I knew what I was doing with NMM! I have done NNMM again. This is an area I have to work on. Everything else I think I did pretty well on.
Bran
I love your job simply ..... Is just perfect !!
eric wolfs
Great painting. It’s just incredible.
Roman LappatPLUS
A wonderful piece, Richard. The tattoo is just too crazy. I love the inspiration why you tackled him in that way. A great study in ambience and connecting to Alfonso’s work.
Clive Jackson
Fantastic job! The tattoo is amazing! Gold of course!
Sergey Savenkov
Gold!
David Batista
Oro sin duda amigo.
"SCV Park" Yeong Min
Fantastic~!! very good~!
Mariano del Olmo
Gold. Perfect use of NMM and great flesh as well. Best,
Melnikov Ivan "Nakatan"
awesome tattoo
gold