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"The victorious knight" by Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette

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SciFi and Fantasy Art The victorious knight by Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette

This drawing is basically an armor study I did using a little resin armor figure. Working with three-dimensional object is always nice to understand the volume of what we draw. After I positioned the basic character and applied the armor on him, I added his sword, cape and the whole battle damaged look. This picture helped me greatly to understand the fundamental of armor plating and how to make them look, at least, believable. Soon after I did this picture it was used by my game master Christian Guertin on our RPG campaign to personify Anraud, a fierce general, precious ally of the Wild Boar Company.

Date	Name	Comment
23 Jan 2003	Andrew Cryer	Loading... Awesome...very well done bud. I did a lot of armour studies for my work and I ended up with the conclusion the real suits had itsbitsy girly arms. Your inking work is some of the best ive seen. Keep it upcolor. Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette replies: "Glad you like! Agree with you, it’s hard not to diminish the character inside the armor to let it enter in it... Mostly with arm and helmet. Yet, sometime, we can cheat and still get a nice result. It's fantasy after all! I saw your gallery, your character, men mostly, really don't have problem with tiny arm, do! Really interesting colossus and amazons down there!"
16 Sep 2003	James Lunn	Loading... Wow this is great this guy looks likes he's been in a few battles the inkings spot on i always tend to go over the top and my pictures get confusing keep up the good work plus i'd be interseted if you had any tips for inking thanks Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette replies: "Glad you like! As for inking, I did this one, and all my stuff as I think, with a pentel ink brush, that allow to work brush lines, which are more fluids and alive, with a pen-like tool. A pretty neat tool, but note that a good old fashioned brush and ink pot work good as well. On these pic I do a real tight pencils and then go a bit more loose and expressive with the brush to bring life to the traits. I then finish it up with differents black pens of various sizes, in this case to ad the little details like the bolt and scratches that help create the battle damaged look. Another good trick to learn and practice inking is to ink some of your work on tracing paper, allowing you to experiment as much as you want without `damaging` your original. Practice and interest is always the keys! Keep me informed if you make some experiences, I'm curious!"