Warrior Design 3

I've taken another little break from posting I was busy setting up a new computer. I think the last post was an overreaction attempting to make her look more feminine. I look at it now and it just seems silly that her armor is so skin tight. The plating on her torso actually conforms to the shape of her breasts. That's a little too close to Batman nipples for my comfort. I mean seriously who would greenlight these? The jewels were an attempt to make a connection between her and the sword. Now as I look at it they seem superfluous. The conclusion I came to is that in both posts the "armor" fits so close to the skin that it doesn't feel like it provides protection. My solution is...............layers! So even though I went with less metal armor she still feels more protected to me. I think it's because the materials appear to be thicker and there's so much more layering. I'm sure she's wearing a bunch of chain mail under there too so she'll be fine. I like it.

Warrior Design 2

So right after I put up the last post a friend called me up and I had him take a look at it. I started talking about the character and he said something like, "Wait a minute. That's a girl!?" I then looked at it and said , "Wait a minute. That's not a girl!" If you've checked out previous posts you'll see I tend to add somewhat masculine features to many of the girls i draw. I have no idea why.

I forgot to mention in the last post that I purposefully bulked her up. I figure if she's really a warrior she should have a frame that's capable of swinging that big sword around. She should also have armor that's functional and it should look like it's actually protecting her. The problem is if I stick with this idea 100% I will get some one who is unidentifiable as a female which I don't want. So I don't want this but at the same time I don't want this and I certainly don't want this.

Anyway these pics were my attempt to make her more feminine. As you can see I couldn't figure out what to do with her hair.

Warrior Design

I'm really in the mood to make something lately and I'm thinking about working on a fight scene. I don't want to spend a bunch of time planning stuff out right now as I'm afraid it will kill the spontaneity and my desire to see this thing through. At the same time I want my character to look cool so I'll probably do a few passes on the design. Here's my first stab at something. I like the idea of a female warrior with a big sword (original I know). Her outfit's not working though. She looks like a female warrior going to the prom or something. Actually she looks a little like Chun Li yea?

After some frustration with working on the character I thought it might be fun to just jump to the sword. I'm pretty pleased with it. I like the idea of rounding the top off instead of giving it a point. I think it suggest that a sword this big would most likely be used for chopping and not stabbing. There's a jewel in the hilt hopefully that means there's going to be some Lion-O action going on.

Here I took another stab at the character. You can see i pretty much scrapped everything but the physique. This feels more like a step in the right direction. I like the idea of a light weight armor. I would still like to get more variety in materials. Maybe I can add more cloth and mix up the armor with some areas chain mail.

Man With Stick

Not much to say about this one. Here's a naked guy with a stick.