My Templar Sketch

[Sol Invictus]

I was inspired by the other threads here to do my own sketch of the Templar. I took the picture on my Nikon Coolpix 775 because I don't have a scanner.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7864/dscn22245ee.jpg

The shoulderpads are a bit too big and I didn't use an eraser on the picture at all, so some lines are out of whack.

[Sol Invictus]

Here's a touched up version I used Photoshop for:
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/964/newtemplar7vi.jpg

I really like how that turned out. Especially the glass on his helmet, and the shading on his breastplate.

[deis]

nice stuff grand marshall :D

hmmm so, wat medium did u use for that? looks water-colourish, but could be colour pencils with wash or some other similar medium, cant tell haha

[Zeremi]

Hehe, those are cool. But they are all just the same old pictures. Everyone paints the same templar. Now I dont mean that they are bad but I want something new...

[Sol Invictus]

I used a HB graphite pencil to draw it. I angled it sideways to smudge it and to create the shading.

I then took a picture of it and edited it digitally in Photoshop with a Cut Out filter on custom settings, as I don't have any brushes at my disposal in real life. I overlayed the filtered layer onto my original sketch and cleaned it up.

It got the result I wanted. :D

[marktastic]

I never thought to take pictures of my sketches with my digicam to put them online... man, im gonna start doing that.

anyways, nice work! i like the outcome.

[deis]

wow

so much work! haha. but i would say the effect turned out to be worth the trouble!

So it really was pencils haha. nowadays its hard to tell with digital medium in the picture.

oh yeah i took couple of my sketches with digicam cuz my scanner gave way. haha. but the scanner was better. im going to recycle that digicam.

[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, it took me about an hour to do the whole thing. It was pretty fun.

[Waabulo]

nice job Sol. Thank you for sharing. :D

[deis]

an hour is fast! takes me about 20 mins or so to do a sketch on average cuz sometimes i need to think were to draw wat. Scanning + adjusting the levels and values takes me another 20-30 mins. If i had to play around with texture and stuff and do the cleaning, would prolly take me longer than an hour :/

[VortecX]

Cool sketch there Grand Marshall!