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This is frooom 2006 or 2007. Since I'm going back to my weaselbird avatar I might as well get some pictures of it up :I
I tried to cobble together some plate armor. I wasn't sure at all how to do the legs, though, and the gap between the chest and hips I left so great because it's a weasel, gotta be flexy >:I. I like the helmet and tail and feet bits. The foremost leg is awful, because this is old art, and well before I had -any- idea how to do perspective with legs. The leg is actually kinda embarrassingly bad (and the armor isn't so great either) but whatever :I I'd want to try to draw a better one of this now, but I worry it wouldn't come out much better. I'm not much of an artist, you know.
This is a fetish of mine, fyi. Probably my biggest. Full plate armor is so ungodly sexy. The more armor there is the better. Power armor counts, too, to an extent, but it's better if it's more unwieldly. Skintight muscle suits are silly. Gimme thick plates of metal encasing a body wholly oh murr.
I tried to cobble together some plate armor. I wasn't sure at all how to do the legs, though, and the gap between the chest and hips I left so great because it's a weasel, gotta be flexy >:I. I like the helmet and tail and feet bits. The foremost leg is awful, because this is old art, and well before I had -any- idea how to do perspective with legs. The leg is actually kinda embarrassingly bad (and the armor isn't so great either) but whatever :I I'd want to try to draw a better one of this now, but I worry it wouldn't come out much better. I'm not much of an artist, you know.
This is a fetish of mine, fyi. Probably my biggest. Full plate armor is so ungodly sexy. The more armor there is the better. Power armor counts, too, to an extent, but it's better if it's more unwieldly. Skintight muscle suits are silly. Gimme thick plates of metal encasing a body wholly oh murr.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fetish Other
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File Size 373.9 kB
Don'cha hate it when the voices in yer head argue...?
It's worse when they qite talking to each other...the silence is just eeeeerie...
Not a bad suit really...(I'm not much on gothic m'self...I wear mostly minimum when I fight-sca.org 1rst cen Irish Celt w/battlefeild scraps...hey, the roman cav dude didn't need the helm any more any ways...*Smirk*...)...
But I can tell youh just bit about "real" armor...
The toes/sabotons look great...the first knees/reverse knees would pr'olly have something akin to the gothic elbow; a completely surounded peice that provides some protection...to the inside of the joint...
The front knees look really good...the only one I've seen that made me wet was a set this one guy spent $500+ bux on...they were beautiful licking flame shaped...stainless no less...
The shins and the thighs (gieves and quises(sp?)) look nice...a lightle tight tho' are they laced? Use wire for a lacing/hinge? Regular hinged?
Not sure of anatomy of the weasel bird but I can tell you that the insid eof the quieses look a little high...REALLY bad for males and moderately inhibiting for females...cod peice looks kind small...(A real dude would never get caught with a tiny cod peice! *SMIRK!*...) and leaf like...Interesting...never thought of leaf shaped...
Tassets don't look bad; for the abdomen you could use a multi lame sort of thing...I've seen it used a bit...it does limit flexi wize a bit but if you're going heavy then it'd fit in with the style...and the breast plate looks fine on the skinny lil'critter...unless you want ro use a pidgeon (what kinda birdie? *Smirk*...) breasted peas-cod(sp?) type breast plate set up...the paldrons(sp?) sholders look a bit low but then slinky critters alike stoats ferrets and weasels don't have much in the way of sholders any ways...
The clamshell type gaunts look O.K. just not much detail...the fore and rebrace on the lower and upper arms are kinda hard to see but look o.k. ...
The gorget...Sigh...I've seen it in real life...folks with looong necks...nothing for it but to use an aventail or camail...but then I don't think either of those were gothic...*Shrug*...
The helm is damned nice...the only thing I could think of on tht would be to make the snout more hawk like...being birdie an'all...*Smile*...
And the tail armor looks too cool tho' a bit stiff...
One final thing...looks like you tried for chain mail under the armor...perfectly period and standard in nearly all times...but one thing to know...real chainmail rubs twists pinches and pulls HAIR! AIEEE! O' and it's heavy as hell...the same amount of chain weighs more than or as much as the rest of the kit...sigh...
All in all a really cool set of fantasy armor...keep tweaking it to your fancy...keep drawin' more...
Later...
-Mark
It's worse when they qite talking to each other...the silence is just eeeeerie...
Not a bad suit really...(I'm not much on gothic m'self...I wear mostly minimum when I fight-sca.org 1rst cen Irish Celt w/battlefeild scraps...hey, the roman cav dude didn't need the helm any more any ways...*Smirk*...)...
But I can tell youh just bit about "real" armor...
The toes/sabotons look great...the first knees/reverse knees would pr'olly have something akin to the gothic elbow; a completely surounded peice that provides some protection...to the inside of the joint...
The front knees look really good...the only one I've seen that made me wet was a set this one guy spent $500+ bux on...they were beautiful licking flame shaped...stainless no less...
The shins and the thighs (gieves and quises(sp?)) look nice...a lightle tight tho' are they laced? Use wire for a lacing/hinge? Regular hinged?
Not sure of anatomy of the weasel bird but I can tell you that the insid eof the quieses look a little high...REALLY bad for males and moderately inhibiting for females...cod peice looks kind small...(A real dude would never get caught with a tiny cod peice! *SMIRK!*...) and leaf like...Interesting...never thought of leaf shaped...
Tassets don't look bad; for the abdomen you could use a multi lame sort of thing...I've seen it used a bit...it does limit flexi wize a bit but if you're going heavy then it'd fit in with the style...and the breast plate looks fine on the skinny lil'critter...unless you want ro use a pidgeon (what kinda birdie? *Smirk*...) breasted peas-cod(sp?) type breast plate set up...the paldrons(sp?) sholders look a bit low but then slinky critters alike stoats ferrets and weasels don't have much in the way of sholders any ways...
The clamshell type gaunts look O.K. just not much detail...the fore and rebrace on the lower and upper arms are kinda hard to see but look o.k. ...
The gorget...Sigh...I've seen it in real life...folks with looong necks...nothing for it but to use an aventail or camail...but then I don't think either of those were gothic...*Shrug*...
The helm is damned nice...the only thing I could think of on tht would be to make the snout more hawk like...being birdie an'all...*Smile*...
And the tail armor looks too cool tho' a bit stiff...
One final thing...looks like you tried for chain mail under the armor...perfectly period and standard in nearly all times...but one thing to know...real chainmail rubs twists pinches and pulls HAIR! AIEEE! O' and it's heavy as hell...the same amount of chain weighs more than or as much as the rest of the kit...sigh...
All in all a really cool set of fantasy armor...keep tweaking it to your fancy...keep drawin' more...
Later...
-Mark
Goodness, I wasn't actually expecting anyone who knew what they were talking about to come by and give such good feedback <3
I never really got to play around with real armor at any point in my life, so a lot of it is I just don't know how the pieces really works together in real life and all. I'll keep all this in mind next time I try to draw something like this. Although it's fantasy armor for fantasy weaselbirds I like it when things are realistic and plausible.
I never really got to play around with real armor at any point in my life, so a lot of it is I just don't know how the pieces really works together in real life and all. I'll keep all this in mind next time I try to draw something like this. Although it's fantasy armor for fantasy weaselbirds I like it when things are realistic and plausible.
Yeah there's that buggaboo that alot of us fan-atics have (I had a HELL of a time NOT screaming out "OBSURDITIES!" when I was watching the new Trek! [Tho' I now worship who ever cast the thing {But I'm gonna skin the idiot cyne-tog-cameramann...I HATED the trans-de-formers movie and never wanted to see the 60's-esque badly done "batman" tilt screen crap applied to the one true religion...}...]...)...
O' Wait...did I stray? Again? Oops *Smirk*...voice number three never knows when to shut up...SIGH!
But yeah...it's just a bit of a mental speed bump some times when you see something you know pretty well...
I was an olde school D&D player before I got into SCA fighting...all the old silly rules in d&d faded quickly: You CAN sleep in Armor with NO ill effects, it takes more than one round (10 secs OR a minute either one) to get in to anything that would be counted as armour, Josh CAN do back flips in his armor I CANNOT! (And I wear less and lighter! but then I can't even do back flips naked...oooo ick what an image!)...
Conversely, what ever you're doing just FLOWS the mind so much easier in to the feal of the piece if all the parts are just right...Ever see "Flesh + Blood" with Rutger Hauer? Man that was one cool flick! (It's the stick jock in me...)...
And that's the point...your pic DID flow really well...and because it's a waesel bird (O' man you gotta tell on that one...) it allowed for any gaps I fealt...only mildly out of place from what I know of...and not in a bad way...I would like to see more...Me stick jock remember? *Smirk*...
As for real armor, you can look up any SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) fighter practice and MOST folks would be glad to put you in what they have even if you don't want to fight...Hell you might be able to look up some of the more crazy groups (Don't know'em by name but they fight with REAL swords! YIPE!) and they have REAL armor because they HAVE to...
Sigh...time's short gotta go...
O' Wait...did I stray? Again? Oops *Smirk*...voice number three never knows when to shut up...SIGH!
But yeah...it's just a bit of a mental speed bump some times when you see something you know pretty well...
I was an olde school D&D player before I got into SCA fighting...all the old silly rules in d&d faded quickly: You CAN sleep in Armor with NO ill effects, it takes more than one round (10 secs OR a minute either one) to get in to anything that would be counted as armour, Josh CAN do back flips in his armor I CANNOT! (And I wear less and lighter! but then I can't even do back flips naked...oooo ick what an image!)...
Conversely, what ever you're doing just FLOWS the mind so much easier in to the feal of the piece if all the parts are just right...Ever see "Flesh + Blood" with Rutger Hauer? Man that was one cool flick! (It's the stick jock in me...)...
And that's the point...your pic DID flow really well...and because it's a waesel bird (O' man you gotta tell on that one...) it allowed for any gaps I fealt...only mildly out of place from what I know of...and not in a bad way...I would like to see more...Me stick jock remember? *Smirk*...
As for real armor, you can look up any SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) fighter practice and MOST folks would be glad to put you in what they have even if you don't want to fight...Hell you might be able to look up some of the more crazy groups (Don't know'em by name but they fight with REAL swords! YIPE!) and they have REAL armor because they HAVE to...
Sigh...time's short gotta go...
XD Another parentheses fetishist? Pile-ups of parentheses are totally my favorite part about writing.
And yeah, I'm a big nerd about medieval stuff, so getting armor like this right is kinda a thing for me (although I guess you could argue that the really extravagant and quintessential medieval suits were probably more a Renaissance thing what with full plate being, like, what? 1400+? (and then you get into the argument about when and where the Renaissance starts (and I've heard people pin it as starting in the 1200s so who cares at this point gosh we're just making up things to argue about so we can all keep writing papers :V ))). I never got to play with real armor outside of wearing a hauberk of mail once, which felt pretty nifty.
I know what you mean about DnD :V I... cannot stand most fantasy depictions of anything because they're all so implausible. Everyone thinks warhammers are basically massive stone sledgehammers :< how silly. Then again everyone thinks that the medieval era was big on prisons and prison breaks and DnD settings always stretch my disbelief but HEY I guess standard DnD settings are a mix of Victorian, Renaissance, and Roman time periods more than the Medieval so I'll take it for what it is. *is a horrible nerd*
And still, yeah, one of the problems with this is that my weaselbird fursona has a looong body proportionally, and it felt weird just sticking a single elongated breastplate deal onto her and calling it a day :V I think I had a sketch of that, with a single solid cuirass thingummy and it looked so hilariously stupid because of the anatomy underneath it. So I can't exactly follow the rules for human armor when the anatomy isn't exactly human... but I'm not exactly an armor smith so I can't really come up with some plausible design on paper and just say that it'd work :V squawk.
The SCA looked pretty cool, I never went to anything of it but I've always been kinda interested. I did classical fencing (not sport fencing, this was more, like, training to kill your opponent, not to just score points at whatever means possible :V I dunno our instructor kinda drilled in a sense of ARROGANT SUPERIORITY into our heads a bit about that difference) for a while and it was a blast.
gaah stop making me nerd out :I it is embarrassing
And yeah, I'm a big nerd about medieval stuff, so getting armor like this right is kinda a thing for me (although I guess you could argue that the really extravagant and quintessential medieval suits were probably more a Renaissance thing what with full plate being, like, what? 1400+? (and then you get into the argument about when and where the Renaissance starts (and I've heard people pin it as starting in the 1200s so who cares at this point gosh we're just making up things to argue about so we can all keep writing papers :V ))). I never got to play with real armor outside of wearing a hauberk of mail once, which felt pretty nifty.
I know what you mean about DnD :V I... cannot stand most fantasy depictions of anything because they're all so implausible. Everyone thinks warhammers are basically massive stone sledgehammers :< how silly. Then again everyone thinks that the medieval era was big on prisons and prison breaks and DnD settings always stretch my disbelief but HEY I guess standard DnD settings are a mix of Victorian, Renaissance, and Roman time periods more than the Medieval so I'll take it for what it is. *is a horrible nerd*
And still, yeah, one of the problems with this is that my weaselbird fursona has a looong body proportionally, and it felt weird just sticking a single elongated breastplate deal onto her and calling it a day :V I think I had a sketch of that, with a single solid cuirass thingummy and it looked so hilariously stupid because of the anatomy underneath it. So I can't exactly follow the rules for human armor when the anatomy isn't exactly human... but I'm not exactly an armor smith so I can't really come up with some plausible design on paper and just say that it'd work :V squawk.
The SCA looked pretty cool, I never went to anything of it but I've always been kinda interested. I did classical fencing (not sport fencing, this was more, like, training to kill your opponent, not to just score points at whatever means possible :V I dunno our instructor kinda drilled in a sense of ARROGANT SUPERIORITY into our heads a bit about that difference) for a while and it was a blast.
gaah stop making me nerd out :I it is embarrassing
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