This guy was a learning curve for me, I hesitated at doing the whole "blue for librarian" bit at first but I managed to make something work. Blending blues over the black armour and graduating it down the torso.
I think it works quite well but at one point I was just going to ignore it so really glad I went for it.
Happy with the classic cloth, parchment colours I do, think I have that technique down well now.