How to paint character in steel armor. This video tutorial shows you how to paint metal armor in illustration. There are two videos you can choose from. You can click on the labelled buttons below the video to watch them. Below is a Paladin female warrior in steel armor with bunny design. You can scroll down below to see step by step images with instruction.
It is finally done! It takes me about 6-8 hours to actually paint total. Continuing from previous post, the idea derives from the year of the rabbit. It has been quite a while since I did a heavy knight set type of armor. I used to do it everyday at ArenaNet. 🙂 So I guess I miss making heavy armor design a bit. So partially I think I did it to satisfy my character with armor design craving.
In this design, I first just focus on the shape of the overall body (silhouette). Once I figured out the silhouette I am looking for, I will start to paint and render them out. It is a lot easier to get the big picture down first, then paint in little tiny detail afterward. You can have in mind what kind of detail and design you are aiming for, but just keep it at bay until you can settle with your overall look of the armor as a whole.
Most of the time when I work on the armor designs, silhouettes is probably the most important element to begin with. I will sketch tons of thumbnails of different silhouettes, then pick and choose. Because if you can variety of cool looking silhouettes, then for sure they will all look different when you get down to really draw and paint them. Anyway, that is just some tips. It will save you a lot of time in character design process. Also get you variety of different design in a quick way.
And here is the final design of the Paladin. For a full length of +2 hours tutorial go to http://idrawgirls.com/character_design_tutorial_knight.html
Paladin character concept tutorial
Here are step by step painting Female Paladin in Steel Armor.
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