My guesss is you used less photo reference on this piece, please let me know? I think you cultivated a good emtion.

Yeah. No ref on this one. When I did this painting I felt I was relying on reference too much. I was right. Now I try not to slave to the ref, but rather accentuate the work with references.

Well you have that rmor down to a great reinvention, and actually of all the elemnts i see you paint i think your clohting and armor has a nice touch.

The armor design = uber awesome!!