DECONSTRUCTING ORNSTEINβS HELMET - Visual reference for artists
Awwight guys, listen up cus im kinda proud of this >:-) Iβve made a first attempt at deconstructing a helmet.
Armour can be tricky, specially those that are so adorned such as Ornsteinβs..... I separated the four layers of the helmet and counted theΒ βspikesβ (is that what you call them?) for better visual reference. Hopefully the handwriting is visible :-} After looking soΒ attentively to his helmet, now I canβt help but to see it as if heβs wearing a crown... Maybe this will help me to better visualise him from now on
MY BIGGEST ADVICE FOR DRAWING ARMOUR: do these studies yourself. I kind of wanted to share mine because im so hype cus i learnt a lot by doing this, but the reality is probably that this wonβt be of much help if you donβt do it yourself XD Go, grab a piece of armour of your preferred character and separate it into pieces, assign them different colours, highlight the things that you consider to be important, etc etc! Iβve only drawn armour 2 times... Iβm very new at this, but already I feel like this is such a hack for future drawings, my understanding of Ornsteinβs headpiece has improved a lot by doing this today. My goal is to be able to draw Ornstie without looking at references. Will I do another one of these things for the rest of his armour...? jhsjhjshjh i totally should, but who knows. What I do know tho is that Iβll definitely do studies like this for future armoured characters! Not sure if Iβll post them, but Iβll definitely use it as exercise for myself. STUDY YOUR ARMOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since im a noob at both art tutorials and armour, feel free to tell me if you think something should be changed or added! Constructive feedback is great. Th-thankz for readin :-}