I got an urge to draw a knight after seeing the dragon fella posted here a while ago. This doesn't perhaps match its quality but I'm rather pleased. The ones saying the shading is off, don't bother this time. I know it already. I went for some "edge" instead of realism. The knight has some noticable issues with legs and the shield but after working hours on it I feel too exhausted to do them again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The background is the one i worked on, nothing more and it is not supposed to be a "piece" by itself. I can perhaps make a signature based on it for someone willing to pay quite a big pile of gold. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And no, it is not an Runescape armor and not trying to be. (though it looks a bit like gold trimmed blurite).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CC is welcome, offers on signature also.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you made that, then WOOOOOOW @_@ It's SWEET as hell!! GJ mwang.

The only thing I can find is his left leg, it just looks to thick to me. But otherwise its very good, nicely proportioned, awesome shading, and now that i look at it the left wrist/hand looks a little small but its very good.

Thanks guys. I guess you mean the right hand Teenage. Yep, it's too long. I was planning to shorten it after merging but then I had added the cloth behind it, so I passed it. Perhaps later.

That's amazingly sweet!! :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Wishing I could do the same*

Thanks guys. I guess you mean the right hand Teenage. Yep, it's too long. I was planning to shorten it after merging but then I had added the cloth behind it, so I passed it. Perhaps later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oops yeah lol, thats what I meant.

That's awsome. :D That's some great shading and texture at the same time. Everything looks very 3D and realistic. The bottom of legs may be the only thing that aren't 99.999% as good as the rest, but that's barely noticeable and I'm sure the entire pic was extremely hard to do. The whole person looks incredible. 10/10 :D

nice picture but he is far too fat for a knight.

Considering a knight wears probably a layer of clothing, possibly a chainmail and ontop the plate he looks pretty thin. One shouldn't also forget that an armour set can weight about 70kgs so it takes quite a man to carry it. Not for the smallest or thinnest.

How did you shade that? Brushes? Looks kinda like pencil or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really good job on the guy though, only thing that bothers me is the chest, shouldn't angle so close to the view I don't think.. And the right foot (from his view) doesn't look right..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ace job though.

His right hand looks slightly strange, as if hes bending it painfully / its dislocated, hes holding the sword awkwardly, apart from that great work Col :wink:

It's done in 5 layers. One with solid base colours...blue, grey, gold and cream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then 3 layers for primary shading. A color dodge layer filled with black...finger paint with white on it. A color burn layer filled with white...finger paint with black on it. A linear burn layer filled with white...finger paint with black on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then after those steps I made one multiply layer and used soft airbrush to make some soft shadowing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fills in the layers are important to get vivid results.

nice picture but he is far too fat for a knight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some knights have this set of clothing: protective leather armor, clothing, chainmail, plate(the armor you see on the surface) i hope you understand that can make you look really fat..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a sword like that takes massive amount of strength to lift so i can understand hes holding his hand a bit down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so the only thing that troubles me are his legs they just dont seem right for a man this size

 

 

 

and the cape like things behind him, executed very nicely yet i cant see the purpose other making it look nice if that was a real knight it would slow him down (its longer then the size of his body) and he would over it quite a few times.. now falling over in battle could mean the end of your lif

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

besides those 2 mistakes its awsome

thats very good col, i really like it, i think to make him less fat would be to make it less accurate, its up to you if your going for accuracy or look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course it's still amazing :wink:

Thanks for compliments (especially MxM since you are a kickass drawer!)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone interested to have a sig from it? :lol: :wink:

Thats some hot sauce there. The pose and body language really hints to a sense of danger. What I really like is the cape-like material.All in all awesome work man.

Interesting shading technique. One thing I would do is fix his right hand... To hold the sword in that position, the elbow would need to "pop" more.. Currently it's too bent. Nice shading/drawing/coloring/etc apart from that. As a side note, I like how your little text configuration. Good work. :thumbsup:

very nice, you could have a future in this.

Well, you certainly put more effort into drawing than I do; good job. I love the cape, but what you have to work on is the armour and especially posture. 'Course, I could take it to mean that he's slightly demoralised, but try out the posture yourself in front of a mirror. I uually do that before drawing anything. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, there's a little too much Warcraft III in that drawing. :?

Yeh WC3 oriented (lots of pointless stuff). Thanks for mentioning the text Keiph :wink: and thanks Froth (heh...it cecored when I typed F and K)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty much all the problems pointed out boil down to me being bad with lineart. I strugled to make it look anything resembling a human. Compared to the scetching the coloring was a breeze (though a looong taking one). If anyone wanted to colab and give me lines to work on I'd be interested. :wink:

Yeh WC3 oriented (lots of pointless stuff). Thanks for mentioning the text Keiph :wink: and thanks Froth (heh...it cecored when I typed F and K)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty much all the problems pointed out boil down to me being bad with lineart. I strugled to make it look anything resembling a human. Compared to the scetching the coloring was a breeze (though a looong taking one). If anyone wanted to colab and give me lines to work on I'd be interested. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give me a couple of days and I should be inspired enough to whip up something. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>EDIT: Scratch that; I got inspired early. Check your PMs.