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Landsknechts in a tavern, 1520's

Another one of my historical illustrations. I've been really into European 19th century genre paintings recently and this is inspired by those. As a subject I went for an everyday scene with a group of Landsknechts (German 16th century mercenaries).

I tried a slightly different workflow where I relied a bit more on 3D. So the room is a 3D paint over and for the figures I posed some 3D models and made parts of the clothing in Marvelous Designer. I then used that as reference for painting the figures and getting the perspective, values and colors more accurate.

Also, big shoutout to my GF who helped me a lot along the way, always with good feedback and suggestions!

I did these sketches to get a better sense of all the characters in the scene, their clothing and relative body sizes.

I did these sketches to get a better sense of all the characters in the scene, their clothing and relative body sizes.