STARGAZER - Banshee's Anonymous 2.0

[Klaus not Santa]

Hi all!
Great to have the Forum back
So here's my latest Project I just completed...

I finally got around to work on Banshee's Anonymous 2.0 bust - which I originally purchased for his competition - here you can see the 16 best entries (Facebook):
16 Best
At the time of that contest i did lack the motivation, but now I have my mojo back and decided to finally give it a try.
This is the the original bust

I call my project STARGAZER, and I have a kind of steampunkish eternal astronaut in mind.
So I used a lot of GreenStuff to sculpt his suit


I then added more pieces

Including a visor and some cyborg-accesories

For the scene I planned to position him in front of a steampunk (spaceship) window with a view of a space scene

I'm not sure if this will really work out as I have envisioned

So I primed it with the planned light situation

Steampunk colors for the background

Here i established the base colors, and used green as a base for the skin tones

Looked kinda cool too

The skin color on the green base


The face almost done

Including a first version of the space reflection on his visor

With the background scene

Some light effects

Then I reworked the background space image

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Then I decided to make the backdrop metal darker than the metal on the suit, giving a bit of contrast between backdrop and figure. So it will be more bronze or dark copper

then I refined some stuff, like the blue-ish light on the base, light and shadow on the backdrop


Next I attempted to add a bit of patina in the form of Greenspan, using AK pigments

It left a very strong and visible smear all over - most likely my fault, but quite different from pigments I’m used to.
After the initial frustration I recovered and reworked the metal and wood

Then I did some more weathering, this time using my own paint mix for the Greenspan

As that was also a tad to strong, I toned it down some

With this I’m close to calling it done


I did some final clean-up and accented some of the lines.

I really like the way he turned out in the end

The images are a bit on the dark side though...




And now he's in good company

Sharing the shelf with the Guardian and Gothica

Thak you for riding with me on this one
Cheers
klaus

 

[Belugawrx]

Nicely done Klaus !