Allow me to be blunt, I am not one of those people who gets upset about skimpy lady armor. I am far too big of a fan of Xena and Hercules for that, but I think there is a place in my fantasy world for skimpy armor and there is a place in my fantasy world for practical armor and mostly there is a place for stuff that falls in-between. Today’s paper doll is a female knight whose armor falls more into the practical camp than the skimpy armor camp.
But don’t worry skimpy armor fans, I’ve got a B&B set planned that falls into that camp, too.
I knew I was going to give my female knight short hair from the beginning, but that was because I originally had conceptions of drawing a helmet. Well, helmets are HARD, so instead we have her without a helmet, but with short hair. Actually, I think the paper doll, if not her clothing, could easily hop into the modern era and be a young stylish Black woman in 2016, but right she’s being a young stylish knight.
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One of the reasons I like armor sets is that coloring them is really fast. I mean, armor is silver. That’s it. Done.
Uncreative, well, perhaps, but still I like my projects simple and straight forward.
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Over the years, I have always struggled with chainmail. I think this chainmail is slightly better than some, but I worry its too obvious where I patched together my swatches of tiny circles. Also, is it chainmail, chainmaile, chain mail or chain maile? Does anyone know?
That has been bothering me as I write up this post.
Anyway, happy Friday, y’all. Have a safe wonderful weekend.
Chain mail is what my spell check says though I like it as one word. If writing Olde English sounding Fantasy I might use Chain Maile just because it sounds more pretentious, like Faire instead of Fair. The extra E can be fun sometimes:)
Yeah, spell check told me “chain mail” was correct, but then I can’t help but think of like chain letters (remember those?) and I wonder about that. 🙂
I think she looks great! And so does her chain mail. 🙂
Thank you. 🙂
The weapons are beautiful. The upper right suit is my favorite bit of armor, but really, I’m here for the cool weapons!
I do like drawing swords more than is possibly… normal.
this one will be awesome to also color in a variety of metals. i can see her bronze or gold with that lovely skin tone!
Yeah, I wish I was better at coloring metal. I think my flat color style doesn’t capture it very well.
i have always seen it as chain mail, or chain-mail. also, i can see a diamond-like pattern where i think you put it together, but that makes it look a little more feminine, and i like it