I ran 4.5 miles this morning and spent most of the day working on the job search, so this evening I took a little break and cranked this out. I think she’s the best so far of the unintentional series of somewhat scantily clad women wielding interesting weaponry and probably ineffectual armor.
I was trying to go for a slightly different look with the inking and the coloring style, too. I kind of dig how it came out. I was sort of thinking of her as being something between a rogue and a druid as far as class goes (I am always tempted to play druids because they usually get to be shapeshifters or have animal companions, but they’re generally just weaker versions of rogues).
I was thinking of her as a non-celtic/gaelic druid class (so the fantasy desert equivalent, with maybe something akin to a cheetah as a familiar instead of the usual bear/wolf/raven/boar option). I might do a series, possibly with equally scantily clad men, just for y’know, equality.
Did a tiny bit of research on the armor-mostly just looked at different armor styles that appeal to me (I still really dig chinese armor, it’s got all kinds of neat swoops and spikes and such) and mixed them up.
I also doodled a horse. It started out as a realistic horse, but quickly devolved into a silly horse. I have real trouble with horses. They just look wrong, proportionally. On one hand, they’re big, strong animals. But on the other hand, they’ve got teeny thin legs, unlike other big strong animals that have nice sturdy legs (rhinos, elephants, hippos, etc).
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