More from the Rus series.
Still would love to find some really good watercolor brushes for Krita, but what I have sorta work; I did get a new inking brush today that I used here and I quite like.
It’s interesting trying to imagine the fashion of a fantasy people based on pre-Viking Baltics and western Russia. The historical record is pretty limited to nonexistant that I could find before ~900. I like his little drape thing though, the pattern turned out quite nice - I tried to make it feasible to produce by weaving.
it’s a cool theme to explore, some of D&D artist Larry Elmore’s stuff gives me early east european vibes even though I’m pretty sure he’s always going for a viking reference