This took a lot longer than it should’ve. A little over a week in fact and I’m still not entirely happy with it - especially the background - but enough is enough. However, I did enjoy working on the Wolf Predator. You can probably tell I took a couple of liberties with his design. For example his movie counterpart doesn’t have a shoulder guard and fishnet covering his right arm. Neither did he have a human skull trophy hanging by his waist, but I wanted him to have one just for the heck of it. Even the slain Alien/Xenomorph’s head dome is not movie accurate, because I favour Giger’s original biomech design - it’s sexier.

Numerous references were used to paint this, including my own Predator and Alien action figures. For the lighting in the tunnels I actually had to study up on how light works in this kind of environment with so much blasted water around. Even learned a little chemistry along the way. Much inspiration came from the works of Narin and Joe Dunaway. They make amazingly detailed Predator maquettes, which I’ll probably never get to own. Meh.

So, hope all you AVP:Requiem fans like. Just for the record, though: the movie sucked XD

UPDATE: As a thank you gesture for the DD I present to you a comprehensive walkthru of this painting. WARNING: Lots of reading ahead.