Concept Art/Ideas Thread

[Zantetsuken]

Awesome stuff!

Maybe I'll drop one of my own in here soon.

[Madsamurai]

Constructive criticism beyond this point:
Basing an armor off Alexander is good in theory, but the giant shoulderpads thing... everyone is pretty sick of it at this point, or if they aren't, they're still playing WoW. Maybe a Roegadyn could pull this off, but that's about it. Unfortunately I'm not too sure how to make an armor that looks recognizably like Alexander without looking ridiculous as armor, since he himself is a castle. Maybe it's just a personal preference and others would like it, but I will say that those overly huge shoulders make the legs look about 2/3 as long as they should.

Thanks for the critique! They are much needed and i have the same sentiments as you while trying to design an armor themed around Alexander without making it look too crazy though it's still kinda out of whack at the end result. The shoulderpads was the biggest design problem and it took the longest for me to come to that. Honestly i am not satisfied with it. I've tried to visualise the Roegadyn's physique while drawing it too since just like you said they are probably the only ones that could handle such an armor. Keep these comments coming, they really improve my design thinking in the long run

[Madsamurai]

Awesome stuff!

Maybe I'll drop one of my own in here soon.

Please do! I'm looking forward to stuff by some of you too!

[Sephirah]

Thanks for the critique! They are much needed and i have the same sentiments as you while trying to design an armor themed around Alexander without making it look too crazy though it's still kinda out of whack at the end result. The shoulderpads was the biggest design problem and it took the longest for me to come to that. Honestly i am not satisfied with it. I've tried to visualise the Roegadyn's physique while drawing it too since just like you said they are probably the only ones that could handle such an armor. Keep these comments coming, they really improve my design thinking in the long run

Just looking over some images of alexander, I got a few ideas of what you may want to change. What if you did something like this:

Shoulders: Make them wider not taller, kinda like the paladin in Ragnarok Online



Arms: this is where you can make things look a bit more mechanical for that piston look, he is a robot afterall (didn't know he was a robot actually, thank you wiki)


Back of chestpiece/helm: Like the dragoon armor's back, you could use that part of the armor and helm to get the crown/rampart look.


Chest: I dunno if it's just me but it looks like he's wearing a vest of some kind, maybe the chest/abdomen could look like a furnace, looks like there is some kind of grate there.


Edit: Oh! Cool idea that just popped into my head while re-reading this and thinking of something to add. I was thinking about the back of the armor, ya know how I said that's where you could get the rampart look. Well, in doing that, I was thinking since he is a robot, it may make sense for that to look like a backpack of sorts, like a power source or battery (think Dead Space, Halo, or a radio backpack) basically a backpack that isn't a backpack, but built into the armor. And then I started thinking about those ramparts looking all roboty, but we don't have robots in XIV. What we do have is allagan tech. And it's closely related, Magitek. SO, what if it looks all jaggedy pointing up like the environments in binding coils? I dunno, just a random thought.

[Madsamurai]

Omg Sephirah thanks for gathering those ref hahah

[Madsamurai]

Burnt out from doing design work and i'm not fully done with most of em'. Plus real life commitment and some personal stuff. So i'm just gonna leave this here for the mean time. Shameless fanart of my own character. Well at least i don't need to kill my brains with illustrations.

[Sephirah]

Omg Sephirah thanks for gathering those ref hahah

No problem! And nice sketch of your char! ^_^

[Madsamurai]

Alright i've started a blog page.

Feel free to keep ya tabs on my art at
http://themadsamuraiblog.tumblr.com/

And follow me if you have a Tumblr account too!

I will still keep this thread updated with new stuff to come.

[Shmunkster]

Awesome!

[CUTS3R]

This is awesome!

it'd be really nice to see how your version of a WHM would look like.