I love the fact that you kept the red robe starting point and painted over it when you realised you wanted to go a different route. Sometimes I forget that RU-vid inspirations aren’t perfect and edit their mistakes out, which takes away from the learning value in the video.
While I have the utmost respect for the techniques required to lay down reds to get to that robes' original look, I admit I am biased against the color in general, and definitely favor the blue robes you wound up giving him. Plus, you have the added benefit of the grime at the bottom looking more pronounced, and less muddied than it would had it gone over the red. But, like you mentioned, it made the video a two-for, so win-win. Love the new Sha-Na-Na intro, by the way. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
I saw some of your older giant painting videos a while back, and I spied a couple of 'em were using older sculpts. For instance the old frost giant king has been replaced with a much nicer sculpt, the fire giant queen has also been updated and a lot of their respective retinues have been redone as well. Would you ever consider doing videos painting a couple of the new giant sculpts? Your previous gripes with them have more or less been entirely fixed.