STARGAZER - Banshee's Anonymous 2.0

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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
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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
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I then added more pieces
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Including a visor and some cyborg-accesories
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For the scene I planned to position him in front of a steampunk (spaceship) window with a view of a space scene
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I'm not sure if this will really work out as I have envisioned
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So I primed it with the planned light situation
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Steampunk colors for the background
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Here i established the base colors, and used green as a base for the skin tones
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Looked kinda cool too
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The skin color on the green base
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The face almost done
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Including a first version of the space reflection on his visor
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With the background scene
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Some light effects
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Then I reworked the background space image
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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
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then I refined some stuff, like the blue-ish light on the base, light and shadow on the backdrop
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Next I attempted to add a bit of patina in the form of Greenspan, using AK pigments
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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
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Then I did some more weathering, this time using my own paint mix for the Greenspan
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As that was also a tad to strong, I toned it down some
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With this I’m close to calling it done
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I did some final clean-up and accented some of the lines.
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I really like the way he turned out in the end
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The images are a bit on the dark side though...
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And now he's in good company
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Sharing the shelf with the Guardian and Gothica
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Thak you for riding with me on this one :)
Cheers
klaus
 

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