Female Knight
polycounter lvl 12
I mostly make male characters, the civil war thread going on - in polycount with all the awesome artists - sort of inspired me to go ahead and make a female character, so here's goes my 1st female character attempt- Crits are welcome 
Concept by Tahra
Some faces
Concept by Tahra
Some faces
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- Head is a bit small
- Shoulders are a bit wide
- upper torso is looking too thick from side view
- this could be because of the how thin the upper leg is but the leg position might need to come forward slightly (from side view)
- I think the shape of the leg needs some rework. At the moment the silhouette of the thigh is looking like straight lines from hip area to the knee, try getting some subtle curves in there. Check the position/shape of the hips
Thats my 2 cents. I hope it helps. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
thank you for the crit, I'm a fan of your work so its an honor and it helps a lot
I shall rework it a lot of good points
Update - Super basic blocking in of the armor - so far - Trying to figure things out that are a little obscure - like the Arm armor - got a lot of refs for it from 3Dsk - hopefully something will click
Been wanting to do a character like this for a while, nice to see you go for it Arty.
I have close to 500 images of armors and such if you want it. Could help you figure out how some of the stuff works and fits together. The design of the leg armor looks a bit odd so you might have to take some artistic freedoms for the sake of articulation.
@ Fingus - Hey whats up Sindre, yeah I'm gonna have take some liberties I guess - Seeing that the legs and arms look like they aren't exactly armor but rather metallic limbs - like the knee looks like a rotating sphere - (also are the images of armor that you have the ones from 3dsk? cuz I got a bunch of those)
I think 1st I'm gonna make what I see and then move onto concepting stuff in 3D and see what happens heh
Nice choice of references / concept!
So much left to do - I can't wait to get into the sculpting portion...but...I'll have to
I hope that helps!
A bit of an update - Not too sure about the elbow armor - or the mask - or the boots...hopefully I can figure something out -
I think for the Mask - Im gonna make the holes in Zbrush and keep the bigger ones open
And Asian style of Western fantasy designs.
A good idea would be to go for a mix between the high heel shoes (as it's pretty cool) and the lobstern tail construction of overlaping plate. That way you lose that stripper shoes feeling and add some more interesting shapes to the feet.
I know it's not like this on the concept but the feet area is quite bland so it would be nice to add your own twist to it.
And very good job so far
@DWalker - I like the reference you posted up, I think I'll add something like that - I didn't really know where to go on the boots because its sort of unclear in the concept. But in the concept it does look like it's high heel.
Here are some updates
I think I'll I'll work on the boots next I quite like the suggestions
Cheers
i also think your proportions are extremely western, the concept seems like an awesome mix between western armour/clothing styles, and eastern drawing/art styles. i think you've pushed too far into western everything and that's a shame.
@almighty_gir - I partially agree with you, it was a tough call, and I just went with a likeness of a few references I found. I didn't really want it to be too toony, but maybe I went a little too realistic.
If you want to provide some sort of refs or paint over on how to find that middle-ground between western and eastern, I'm all ears
a little harsh (wording-wise) would have been sufficed to say, "it seems you went a little too western instead of stylized in the face" no sense in expressing your disappointment and shaming me, that doesn't help anyone.
I think you've done a really nice job so far! In my opinion, though, it doesn't really feel like it matches the concept at all. If it wasn't for the armor being the same, I don't know if I would relate the concept and your sculpt with each other.
The proportions are a big part of that, but the face is what makes it quite detached, for me.
With that being said, I still think what you are doing looks really great! Just isn't hitting the concept perfectly, in my opinion.
still messing with the face... - did a few studies of a bit more stylized heads...still unsure