{"id":25986,"date":"2024-11-15T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=25986"},"modified":"2024-11-10T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T17:07:00","slug":"designing-fantasy-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/11\/15\/designing-fantasy-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Fantasy Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fae-Dragons_20241015134454.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fae-Dragons_20241015134454.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fae-Dragons_20241015134454-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fae-Dragons_20241015134454-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s tough designing armor. At least with fantasy armor, I can stylize it. Balder gets armor later on in the story. I imagine it&#8217;s super sleek, silver, and silent despite all the moving parts. That is easier to imagine than draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first based his armor on Alice&#8217;s from the 2010 Alice in Wonderland story. I referenced quite a bit from fantasy women armors, because grace and prettiness more of a design priority there, for better or worse. No boob armor though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A challenge was deciding how the shoulder armor should look. Too much sticking out could look clunky. I settled on the bottom designs, with the jewelry. I like how restrained Balder looks with the shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important reference was <a href=\"https:\/\/bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com\/post\/167706024605\/lonewolf574-char-portraits-elven-knight-by\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com\/post\/167706024605\/lonewolf574-char-portraits-elven-knight-by\">this <\/a>design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gold&#8217;s a reference to Gallena, Balder&#8217;s Fae-Dragon girlfriend, who should get a post soon. Their story&#8217;s a tragedy. I laugh every time I think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough designing armor. At least with fantasy armor, I can stylize it. Balder gets armor later on in the story. I imagine it&#8217;s super sleek, silver, and silent despite all the moving parts. That is easier to imagine than draw. I first based his armor on Alice&#8217;s from the 2010 Alice in Wonderland story. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":25980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25988,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions\/25988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}