Joel Evans: My name is Joel, I’m

My name is Joel, I’m submitting a redraw of Almadora from Depth Fantasia, I believe. I thought the design was really colorful and had a lot of personality, but I wanted a crack at a redraw, to design a heavier suit of armor. I figured that, seeing as how the weapon she’s wielding is so big and heavy, anyone that wields a melee weapon like that is going to need suitable armor when they whiff an attack and have to absorb a few hits. 

The original design seemed to be some sort of leather armor with an unprotected chest, so I thickened parts of the armor, and turned most of it into steel plate. I added a breastplate so she isn’t as exposed, with less of her, um, business, hanging out. I liked the headpiece the character wears, and the idea of the character wearing a circlet for a small modicum of head protection, but the original design seemed to maybe(?) be some sort of harness for a heavier helm, or a crown of some sort. So, to turn it into a piece of armor that could take a weapon strike, I again, thickened the armor, and tried to keep a semblance of the original color scheme by coloring it the same wine-red as the rest of the outfit.

Overall, I think this might offer some more protection than the original outfit, and I even managed to put a butterfly on the breastplate, because I thought that was cool, and my sister likes butterflies.

If you or anyone wants to check out some more of my work, my DeviantArt page is http://theunlearnt.deviantart.com/.

P.S. My wife walked in while I was working on the um, crotch-area of the redraw. She was aware I was working on a redraw of basically, bikini-armor, but she didn’t realize how naked the original girl was. So in surprise she threw a Tonberry plushie at me, and with my catlike reflexes I managed to get hit by it. It landed with a devastating ‘doink’. She then remarked how weird it was that she walked in on me with basically a naked girl on my computer screen, and that I was making an effort to make her less naked.