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Europe inspired fantasy design thing WIP1

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Please ignore awkward posing/anatomy/lack of details; these are quick concept sketches and may also be prone to revision
(will move this in scrapbook later)


A project/idea I have been brainstorming and rough sketching since last year. (I'm still in the process of brainstorming so I'm nowhere near finished... ._.)
I was thinking of drawing a series of fantasy armour designs (as in, it looks nice but completely useless in actual battle a.k.a. "how the f*ck do I move in this thing- oh sh*t, I tripped on my heels/cape/etc.") inspired by different European Coat of Arms/heraldry, but I'm probably going to include other national symbols as well.
(The more I know about a country, the more things I could possibly include, so if you're from a European country, some info/pictures of your country's unique culture, traditions, history, national treasure, older flag/coat of arms designs, clothing, flowers, animals, etc. would help out, plus I'm interested to learn new things. c: )
For example, for the Dutch (top left), I included the flag and incorporated the Dutch traditional dress into the design, including a helmet resembling a Dutch bonnet, and I tried to make the sabatons sort of shaped like Dutch wooden clogs, and I used the Dutch Coat of Arms as reference for the lions on the greaves. (As you can see I overkilled on tulips haha) In the final drawing, I'm going to have a decorative background that includes tulips, windmills, delftware, lions, coins (symbolizing the Dutch Golden Age), etc..
I'll let you guess what countries the other 3 designs represent (which should be obvious, hopefully.) If your country's included there, let me know if something in the design (besides impracticality for battle) bothers you and I will try to add/make changes if I can.
(I have several more rough designs for other countries, but these four are the ones I narrowed down the most to a single design that I'm most content with. (just for the Dutch one, I'm still debating whether or not I want those useless lion heads on her hips - I might scrap that later, and I might tweak the breastplate) I'll post the others after I'm more decisive.)


(Of course, an idiot like me who can't come up with legit armour designs even needed assistance with the names of armour parts (notice how I left out a bunch of them) : [link to myarmoury.com] )

Even though I enjoy working on this project so far, at the same time I feel kind of guilty because I know impractical armour irks a lot of people and I'm afraid it could possibly offend some people, so if most people are bothered by it, I'll just continue it as a small personal project and only post it discreetly for those who are interested.

If all goes well; for now, I'm only focusing on Europe, but I might try a project with other continents when I have enough ideas/inspiration.
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Princesomniac's avatar
8((( i want armor with a poof skirt