Saturday, February 28, 2009

French Cavalryman, 1790's - Painted

Finally finished! I really enjoyed painting this one. The Doug's Original horse is first class sculpting. I wasn't too sure about the texture of the hide at first. Thinking it may be too much overdone. But after laying in colors, it really helped painting in shadows and highlights. I have two more of Doug's horses that are waiting for riders...They may have to wait, I'm a bit burned out with doing another mounted subject too soon.

The color of the chassuer's green jacket is a bit more darker than shown. The lighting washed some of the clarity.

The reference I used for the chassuer was Europa's "NAPOLEON'S LINE CAVALRY-Recreated in Colour Photographs". There were a couple color illustrations that I used as well. Not sure how accurate he is but I used what was avaliable to me.















6 comments:

Gary Dombrowski said...

Jason, That's a honey of a figure. Great job buddy. ~Gary

Jason said...

Thanks Pard! I had some fun building him;)

Anonymous said...

great figure Jason!
congratulations.

greets
RJ

Jason said...

Thanks RJ!

Radek Pituch said...

Another beauty Jason!
My congratulations.

Radek

Jason said...

Thanks Radek!

Big ol' pile of heads and armatures for the St. Privat project.