Character design - future Greek soldier - The Thracians

This project was to design a fantasy/ fairy tale characters and remake a sci if version of the chosen character. I ofcourse choose to stay on my Greek theme and Thracian soldier. I had an idea in my head so I did a bit of research. Looking at spartan and other Greek warriors. I started to rough out silhouette thumbnails to get a general idea of what I want my character appearance to be like. It is important to get a unique character silhouette so it stands out and people can recognize your character.

Silouettes

Armour Thumbnails

Rear armour

Arm Designs 

Final Armour Design - Digital
Front Torso,

Final Helmet Design

 Rear Torso

 Side Torso

 Front Torso

I used photoshop cs5 to draw these digitally. I used grayscale tones to shade in the armour and give it the light and dark effect. I then found textures i wanted my armour to be and used 'overlay' on the layers for the textures to overlay for the shaded effect.