Hussar sketches in GIMP, pen and ink

Salve,
some sketches in color, and black and white ink drawing  enhanced with GIMP manipulations... Hussar is holding my most favorite weapon - war-ax, already seen in the Saka and Scythian arsenals more than 2700 years ago, eg Indo-Saka king Spalirises  SpalirisesStandingInArmour , here some XVII century examples war axes