PERTURABO
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Primarch Thursday!
This week I finally decided to paint the Primarch who has probably been requested the most since I started this series: Perturabo.
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure why he was so heavily requested. Maybe it’s because right after I painted Sanguinius, Games Workshop announced his return as a Daemon Primarch… who knows.
Like with several of the other Primarchs, I didn’t know his story particularly well, so I spent some time reading through his lore and learning more about him.
As always, what emerged was a character with a surprising amount of depth.
At his core, I see a tragedy tied to pride, ego, and perhaps even a certain narcissistic victim complex. His awareness of being a genius, likely intellectually superior to many of his brothers, left him constantly hungry for recognition. Yet that recognition never truly came, despite all the challenges he overcame and all the sacrifices made by both himself and his Legion.
His inability to genuinely connect with his brothers, caused partly by his own ego and partly by the life he lived on Olympia, where he learned to trust no one, feels almost like a sentence of isolation. Perhaps “self-imposed isolation” would be a more accurate way to describe it.
I hope you enjoy this piece. It was probably one of the most challenging Primarch portraits I’ve painted so far, so I really hope it was worth the effort.
See you soon, and next time we’ll be painting…
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA.
For the first time, I might actually let you decide. If you’d like to, leave your suggestions in the comments and tell me which Primarch you’d like to see next!
