How to Draw a Knight's Shoulders

Video Transcript

"In this clip we will be continuing on down the sketch and we will be drawing the shoulders on our knight. And what we are going to do is we are going to make his armor roughly a little bit lighter not the kind that you would wear for jousting where like every inch of your body would be covered in iron and metal. We are going to give this guy a little bit of room to breathe. Not too much though. His whole body still isn't going to be covered, like for instance. As we draw his shoulders in this clip we are going to actually come in here and draw his neck and we're going to make his neck a little bit exposed. I mean normally he would have some form of protection and he would but we're not going to give him anything, we're going to give him a high collar and just a regular old neck. We are going to draw the beginning parts of his shoulder armor because he will be wearing armor on his shoulder so we're going to come in kind of like that here. One rule of thumb in drawing armor, if you draw it one way on one side you draw it exactly the same on the other because they are supposed to be, you know, mirror images of each other. Like complete armor pieces would definitely look the same one side and the other so make sure when you are coming in here that you are drawing a line or a piece of a pattern that you do the exact same on each side so it looks complete. You are obviously free to draw any lines that you want to in there to make it look a little bit more believable. I like to add a few details here and there, details in the armor like maybe a couple of bolts here, a line here, a strap or anything to kind of make the piece feel a little bit more believable. So now what we'll do is we're going to come down here and draw the breast plate that kind of is underneath this little piece here. That's not really a breast plate, it's a little too high to be a breast plate but it is definitely like part of his upper chest. Another thing you are going to need to do is be as careful as possible in drawing any lines because you want it to look very smooth and then the last portion of his little shoulder piece here. We are going to come in and we are going to draw what sort of resembles football pads but they're not quite the same design. Come through here and these will have a bit of a glint to them because they are actual solid metal shoulder pieces for the upper part of his arms to protect the shoulders and you can add a little bit of definition to them if you like. If you have a thicker marker I recommend breaking up that one when you are about to do any sort of a thicker line. I mean I try not to waste the ink in your marker, there is a lot of like fine tip to it. So at this point we have got his shoulders done. We've got the upper part of his armor and shoulders. So what we'll do now is we'll move on to the arms in the next clip."