‘Usurper’ academic bust from Mindworks
Sculpted by Juan Nahuel Novelletto
Based on artwork by Jodie Muir

This one was mostly painted on stream over the last month and a bit, but finally caved and spent a session at the desk today off stream to knock out the last few elements. All together it probably took somewhere under 20 hours, about 14 of which were on the twitch stream

Originally I planned the model as a bit of a palette cleanser between competition pieces, and now that it’s done I can definitely see there’s elements I think could use a bit more work, but overall I’m quite happy with the final result. I was aiming to capture some of the mood of Jodie Muirs amazing artwork, but with a more earthy palette - the Mirkwood elves from lord of the rings being a main inspiration.

I still find myself needing to ‘solve problems’ on the model which sometimes takes me quite a long time, hence needing some time off stream painting my normal way to get the model to the finish line. I really appreciate anyone who took the time to tune in to any of my streams when I was painting it - you’re all legends! I’ll bring the model on for a bit of a chat about it at some stage this week and hopefully get started on something new!

If you have any thoughts on this one I’d be happy to hear them - I definitely think there’s plenty of room for improvement all around, so happy to hear it!