The Gatekeeper: «Sunset warrior»


Model: "The Gatekeeper"
Company: Nocturna Models
Scale: 54 mm

Story: When I first shaw this miniature I inmediately felt in love with it: 60 mm high, very well detailed, and a good price. It combines skin, metals, clothes and show a strong and unic character. As disadvantage it is worth mentioning its static posture, cause I prefer looking for more dinamic sceneries.

First of all, I had to decide the scenery: a palace with a gate, a castle ruins, or a natural landscape? I choosed the last one. In that time I was reading to Roman Lappat on "Massive Voodoo", about meaning and importance of the environment. I decided to create a scene where the sunset light would be the main actor, adapting the figure acording to it.



By adding some pine cork pieces, milliput and sand, a general scene was appearing...



Some pieces of dry grass just to add some natural pattern:






Using different purple tones and choosing the light source, coming from the right side (Lateral lighting instead of zenital one seems to be my preference I guess):




Starting painting! I wanted to create a strong contrast inside the figure, upper vs. lower part. I surfed on the internet looking for some inspiration coming from concept art and fantasy illustrations. Then, I found Chris Rahn´s art, a perfect example of sunset warriors and an extraordinary contrast and lighting. From that moment he is one of my favourite illustrators.

Applying this idea to my figure I first painted a sunset sketch on a piece of plastic, using the same tones on the miniature later:





As you can see my palette is quite simple, mixing mostly primary colors in order to get natural and heterogeneous skin tones:



And final photos:












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