Personal Development in Specialist Pathway 
27th/28th March 2013

Today and for the past week I have been concentrating on development sketches. From what I have been researching I have been taking a lot of reference from history, as I have said before I did want to create something that was completely fantasy but obviously I have changed my mind. I'm not sure why I have shifted from the fantasy theme, a lot of the armour I have looked at does seem unrealistic and the armour from the 1500's - 1600's is more believable. I have looked at armour from the 1100's when the French Crusades were taking place. Knights and Soldiers at the time wore a tunic over their chainmail armour. This is the type of style I have decided to go for and I have drawn it in my sketch book.

I have also drawn other ideas for armour as well, I have drawn some armour from a game called Dark Souls which is a game set in a fantasy world but has a vareity of armour sets which look medieval. Other sources I have drawn from include Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, I have taken screenshots from in the game to sketch from. I have also drawn some of Durer's work - Knight, Death and the Devil, St.George on Horseback and St.George on foot. 

I have almost completed my final design, my lecturer has advised to add colour to my drawings but every time I add colour to anything I draw I do end up ruining it.

Next week I should be starting my 3D models, I'm yet to figure out how I am going to do the chainmail, for rendering sake I may just normal map it on or paint it in Mudbox.

The Helmet will be the first thing I do, I believe this to be one of the hardest parts to model so getting that out the way will be the first step forward and then I'll add detail in Mudbox.