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Cato and Aelius

petjessit

Petrus Cato and Jesse Aelius, the Centurion and Optio of the III/III Dragonriders of Quintus, chilling out in camp after laying their weapons aside but not yet their armour.
Did some research for this, which is why their sandals look fantastic, but Petrus’s armour is basically straight-up fantasy armour. I might redesign it in future to be a little closer to reality. He might have one of those one-piece frontplates, even though I think they’re stupid and preclude being able to bend over. Thari suggests it would be more practical in leather, but then Petrus can’t have it gold-plated because he’s a rich brat. : P Even if I do give him a one-plate, it won’t be one of those stupid muscle-armours and it DEFINITELY won’t have nipples. : P Seriously, why did they put nipples on their armour? It’s disturbing. o.O
Anyway, Jesse is an archer, that’s why he has a thing on his arm. I also gave them a couple scars, just because.

Resources!
Pose for Petrus
Pose for Jesse
Face for Petrus and other image search results for Julius Caesar : P
Face for Jesse: some guy I know named Jesse >.>
Various image searches for roman armour
How to put on regular legionary armour
Soundtrack (mostly for Jesse)

Unmasked

hrumask

Someone help me come up with a better title. That one is lame.
I tried a colouring technique I haven’t before… at least not often: setting a brush on like 5% opacity and going over it lots.
This picture I got the idea for after seen a thumbnail of a pretty guy in a broken mask on Youtube. So of course I go to my current default bishie-boy… This one looks more elfy than most, though, so it’s probably Adhemlenei!Hrulash, rather than Qismah!Hrulash. He was going to be holding a sword in his other hand but I messed up the perspective and didn’t feel like going back to it.
The lineart under the mask is kind of pretty, too, so I might finish this picture with him having no silly mask at all.
Soundtrack while painting this piece: SnK OST