Greave Halfway

REVIVAL!!!

Yes I am returning with this, a Leather greave I did for Castlefest 2013 (did not manage to get a second one in time, but that's okay)
The biggest piece of leatherwork I have done so far, experimenting with dyes and methods of applying. I am very pleased with the piece (though not with the pictures)
The design was first drafted in clay: unreal-hunter.deviantart.com/g…
templates were made and cut individually. some from pre-blackened leather which is rubbish for tooling, the others were made from Veg-tanned leather.
Pieces were cut, tooled, dyed and stitched thogether by hand.
Tme taken: about a week of and on.

This one is the top of the knee guard. The skull is actually only tooled in the eye sockets and around the teeth. all the other depth is done by using dilluted paints. It's actually a lot darker in real life (thanks camera)

Awesomely inspired by: i-tavaron-i.deviantart.com/art…
I know this means my design is based off anothers work, but I fell so in love with how that looked I wanted to give it my own spin. So tip of the hat to that original piece.