THUTMOSE III Originally Thutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the  Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt  for almost 54 years and his reign is usually dated from  24 April 1479 BC to 11 March 1425 BC, from the age of  two and until his death at age fifty-six; however, during  the first 22 years of his reign, he was co-regent with his  stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the  Pharaoh. Here, we see him reincarnated to wage his war  those who defy him.  EYES & FLESH Thutmose has a wonderful face. With the great cheek  bones and stern brow you would expect in any self-  respecting crazed megalomaniac bent on world  domination! I wanted the Egyptians to have a noticeably  different tone their skin and planned my painting  accordingly. The eyes are nicely realised too, so it really just a matter  of painting what detail there is, well almost (this was my  initial mistake; I painted his eyes white with brown  pupils!). His eyes are of course yellow with black irises. I  used the mistake of painting them white first to my  advantage and left the white as an undercoat for the  yellow, which isn’t the strongest of pigments and needs  something to bolster it up a bit. I then dotted the irises in  black over the brown mistakes, and no one will ever  know… Also he does have a lot of eye make-up, for which you  there is no real answer but to paint it like the picture in  the book, or now copy what I have done here. I didn’t  paint it on at this stage, because I was still debating  whether to paint the eye make at all. I always find this  kind of detail tricky, as it is more like proper artwork, and  difficult to correct the final result if you make a mistake. 

EYES 1. His whites are AP-WP1102 - Matt White, then AP-WP1107 - Daemonic Yellow 2. The irises are AP-WP1101 - Matt Black FLESH 1. AP-WP1124 - Oak Brown plus AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown 2. plus AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown 3. pure AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown 4. pure AP-WP1127 - Tanned Flesh 5. AP-WP1127 - Tanned Flesh plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White