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The Allfather Returns!
Odin is now finished! I am very happy with how he turned out. Just a few more reference ideas before I get to the finished piece. Muninn and Huginn were a little difficult to achieve as looking ‘real’ while not just looking like black blobs on his shoulders. I ended up looking at raven photos online and found that the sun can give them a brown tint, which I think I’ve achieved.
I think the brown colour here is more to do with the sunlight, so I only put the brown on the upper sides of the ravens where the sun would strike.The other tell-tale sign that this is the Allfather is that of Gungnir, Odin’s spear. Using some of the other references images for Viking Spears I just decided to go with a dark wood of an old spear. Many of the images show Odin as more of a Gandalf figure, which I wanted to avoid. I really wanted him to look like a normal old man wandering the fjyørds of Norway, which I think I’ve achieved quite nicely.
Like I said VERY much like Gandalf...And now the Lord of the Æsir, husband of Frigg, in all his humble glory!
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