I like the Crusader war dress, its design is creative

ALI 2025-09-30 20:34:52 UTC #1

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Oriflamme 2025-09-30 22:43:35 UTC #2

I’m sorry, but the crusader-style (11th century knight) is completely sauceless. It’s just a guy wearing some piece of cloth over a shirt made of metal, absolutely boring.. The only flare is the christian branding and even that is mid.

Sincerely, A fan of late medieval/ renaissance armor.

BoomerZ 2025-09-30 22:52:51 UTC #3

The coats are pretty iconic, but have to agree with @Oriflamme, later armour is fantastic looking. Specially gothic.

love sallets

jwabeasley 2025-09-30 23:59:31 UTC #4

I've always liked the Teutonic version, since they get to add a cape due to the cold. But there aren't that many men's outfits that get to be as billowy and flowy as those crusader tabards.

ALI 2025-10-01 01:23:02 UTC #5

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moontokkym 2025-10-01 07:40:52 UTC #7

You can still do way more storytelling with it. If this is anything other than a storm-trooper level npc then it's really not great.
It's drawn fine but as others have said: there's no depth. This character has no background. His armor is brand spanking new, perfectly fits him fine, spotless of any hard-to-clean specs of blood or tears from the battlefield. His belt is anachronistic and doesn't even work, a basic modern one from H&M with holes but no buckle spur that would make those holes useful...

There's "having a simple design for convenience" and there's "simplifying a design until it no longer has any identity". The goal of simplifying a design is so that every detail can be thought about and counts for the storytelling, you've simplified some parts down so much that it's at AI-level where there's inconsistencies in visual chronology AND garment function. You say you like this type of dress but no love or care has been put into the details.

Also, as a side note: as someone who has both simplified and extremely maximalist designs of characters, sure, the more complex ones take longer... For a while. Once you've drawn them 100 times (which you will in a comic), it's second nature. I'm doing a lot of panels with my very very detailed character right now and I'm drawing her about as fast as the much simpler character I've never drawn before. Comics take time. If you're workshy then comics aren't for you.

BoomerZ 2025-10-01 08:06:10 UTC #8

For me, the drawing wouldn't take long. The color to make it look shiny and metal would be a challenge.

Oriflamme 2025-10-01 13:30:19 UTC #9

I get it, if you don’t if you don’t want to draw plate armor. I did it for my comic and it was an absolute nightmare.

There are also different story telling implications of various armor types. If it’s historical fiction, gothic armor around the time of the crusades, would be equally out of place as a modern u.s. soldier in the war of 1812. Even if it is a complete fantasy, certain pieces of equipment have certain connotations and associations. I think the morion helmet is pretty neat, but the helmet is forever linked in popular culture to the early European conquest of the new world. Crusader armor is very much the same. You see a bucket head, tabards, and cross, and your mind immediately thinks: religious nutcase.