#ironheade

I have started learning how to draw the last few weeks on an art tablet my partner gave me to try out, so i have doodled the IRONHEADE Empire. Heavily because i have been showing Brütal Legend to my partner cus i love it and it irreversibly impacted my music tastes, hehe

For some reason as soon as I went to title this one on another site, the chorus from "Spoonman" by Soundgarden popped up,, XDD Somewhat fitting, I guess! It'd probably be something he listens to now and again,, :]c

Anyway!!! Got the thought to doodle him, try to work out designs for his wings!! It's been built off of the last time I drew his wings; for these, I'm thinking of having the fingers for the wings extend off of his second through fifth proximal phalanges; muscles running through both! With this, the wing's "hand" can curl and grip somewhat separately from the wing itself!

And then their shape - they'd be elliptical! This wing shape (at least, among birds) provides for maneuverability in tight spaces. I thought it'd be fun, considering much of what we see in-game (still haven't decided on a name for their world; am open to suggestions). His wings would lend themselves better to dodging projectiles than long distances (though, I have a possible solution for that,, >:]c ).

Now - trying to do the patterns?? ough. My fucking detested. Only because!! I have not designed his mother's wings!! so I don't know how I want his to look!!! Hence, this is subject to change in the future (though I have entirely considered having this patterns as a sorta "juvenile" pattern that he grows out of later on; makes for a good excuse)! My first attempt to pattern him came out like peacock feathers,, XDD Just tiny eyes dotted all about the membranes!

Also, his tail; not sure whether I'm convinced to keep it that long... The sketch originally had it longer, but I didn't imagine him vibing all too much with so much whip in his tail, nor the implication of how thick it was starting off as... Part of me feels he'd be better with a shorter, blunter tail, but I can't help itttt, I'm a sucker for long prehensile ones!! Agh, who knows how it'll end up!

There's also his spiracles; a small detail, but I wanted to add them in! Wasn't able to get too good of a look off of the basic internet searches to determine their shape and size fr, so I just "fuck it, we ball"'d the things,, :] d

Anyway. I also drew this to sorta show what my messy sketchy comms would look like! realized belatedly that I didn't have much by way of examples for it, and thought this would make a good one. Most notable is the messy lineart; it's still readable, but weight is inconsistent in plenty places, and not all the lines close in a reasonable place, if at all! But yeah. The him!! :D d

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