Fantasy knight concept art, need feedback for making this 3D

Wuneye

several drawings of a character I hope to model in Maya (once i get my comp working right). the third pic is the most concrete i have the idea, a sort of fantasy knight meets the man of la mancha. you can see in the second pic i tried to work in the bowl hat.

any help with this concept? Any ideas about posture or technique that can help?

jmt

This concept is a little confusing without any context. Is there supposed to be a person/monster under that armor or is it a golem sort of thing? He seems to have hair, but he would have to be pretty strangely proportioned to fit in the armor. There's a sort of spooky puppet feel to it, which is cool, but the overall forms could be better. I've never seen a character dual wielding lances before. They're typically a lot longer and not for hand to hand combat.

Wuneye

The idea is sort of takes from the Don Quixote of a thin seemingly frail old guy in ill fitting armor. THis one takes a bit of a darker spin on the living in a fantasy world idea that the original character had. Kinda like what Don Quixote would look like in American McGee's Alice.

I might do away with the hair entirely and add the bowl hat to the third image. I do have ideas of making it a single lance as i thought about how he would fight with two lances...

greevar

The first thing that came to my mind was Don Quixote, so you're on the right track. Also, here's an idea on what direction to take with the helmet:



It's a basic Spanish sallet, but with a face mask. This one is Miraz from Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Wuneye

I like the idea of the sallet, but Don Quixote used a barbers bowl as a helm. a flat brimmed bowl with a curve cut in one side for the clients neck when the barber washed their hair. perhaps the sallet top with a disk brim with the cut might be in order.

Robbyh

Golem idea seems plausible !

Wuneye

how is this concept? i went with a slender face and added a scuplted mask with a helm combined form the sallat and the bowl brim. the lance and sheild helped balance him out some

Swizzle

Ah, you got around to posting this stuff. I look forward to seeing where you take it.

Lord McMutton

Ooh, this is pretty cool looking. The overall design reminds me of some Kingdom Hearts enemies, as well as certain Demons and Persona from Shin Megami Tensei stuff.

Keep at it!

Wuneye

I added a belt to help keep up the hip and groin guards, it's a big loose belt so it adds to the gangly feel of the armor.

Should I add anything like the bottom of a jerkin or something? despite the leg guards the legs still seem off to me.

makecg

I like the concept art pretty cool I want to see it in 3D

Wuneye

loading some pics of what i have so far