WH40K Sister of Battle Fanart

The story behind this project is funny. I was talking about this in my previous post.

I found an really cool artwork done by Johannes Helgeson, didn't know the character back then, it was just written WH40K Sister of Battle. I knew WH40K back from my childhood and after searching about the Sisters of Battle, I fell even more in love of the character. I always had a sweet spot for fanatic woman in armor. It also reminded me a bit of the characters from Requiem, a comic book with gothic vampire in armor. Same kind of color scheme.

And instead of starting to 3D model it, I've buy a few miniature and start painting them. But it was time to start this project and here it is.

The original artwork was just of the head with a bit of the shoulders and the torso. But I wanted to do a full character. The good thing was that Johannes seems to like those Sisters as he did a few other drawings with the complete armor. I did a big mix between his style and the original miniatures from Warhammer.

The first pose was inspired by one of the miniature. The second one also with some kind of jetpack. I had a little crush when I've discover those flying units in miniature. And since it was not too hard to create an extra jetpack, I decided to go for it.

And when I've done that second image, Johannes just released a new artwork he did with a new Sister of Battle jumping into action with arms around. I really liked the set up so I decided to go for it but was too lazy to change the head to match the original artwork.

The modeling was done in Zbrush, textures in Substance Painter. The rendering was done using Maverick Render and a bit of touch up in Affinity Photo.

So all this is kind of a mix of everything from inspirational artwork to miniature. I might try to 3D print these one day now that I have them in 3D but in order to do that I still have a big amount of work to make them "printable", like thicken the clothes, fix some holes, thicken the sword a bit.

Will see when I will be able to do that, but it's certainly something I will do in a near future.

And now that she is done, I might come back to some painting, it was good to be back at it.