This pic was inspired by Apricane mailing me a face he had worked on and saying 'Maybe you could paint him a suit of armor?' ;-) Well, slightly over a month later, he has a suit of armor, and a helm, and a polearm of some sort, and a winter battlefield background. This is really my first attempt at painting armor all by my lonesome. I looked at lots of references, but ultimately designed my own. Many thanks to Apricane for providing the original work on the face (not sure who the photo is of, perhaps he will tell us). I hope this portrait will be useful for the fighter types out there. :-)