New sketches

[varelishawt]

So after a really long dry spell (the last time I did a sketch was a couple years ago), I got fired up again, mostly by a) being pissed at this guy who made a mod for Dragon Age to make the already-too-thin female models even thinner, b) Peter Morwood’s discussions about proper armor for women, and c) my hatred for the open-from-neck-to-chest leather armor in the game.


Redesign of my Warden. The torso looks kinda crappy, but I’m happy with the gorget and helmet. Lamellar armor is a bitch; my hand wanted to fall off after I was done. I went to a simpler design (see below) to save my sanity (and hand).



A concept sketch for something along the lines of the Tapisserie de Bayeux and this Flemeth wallpaper. I want to do something stylized like that. The background is going to be a doozy, and part of me is gibbering in terror at having to color all of this…



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Comments

[braigwen]

You want rage? Try the bare breast armors all over nexus... ick.

[varelishawt]

Part of the reason I started doing fan art again was because a guy made a mod to Barbie-fy the women in the game. NOPE NOPE NOPE. Effective armor is a bit bulky, because you have to wear something underneath even something as light as leather, because that stuff chafes like a mother, and without some padding, there's nothing to absorb blows.