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Guyver89 In reply to Dragunalb [2014-03-28 07:32:52 +0000 UTC]

Before I start on something that I really want to draw I train my brain how to draw something by constantly tracing what I want to draw over and over, I did this with dinosaurs when I was a child and then drawing them just came to me naturally so I do the same thing with armor and other things (although for vehicles I'm not so adept so I do have to trace vehicles.)

I drew ODSTs constantly over and over (some of the ones on page 1 are from the sketches.)  I pretty much know Halo Reach ODST design by heart now haha. So in a way I do trace them but when I get into drawing the actual project I remember it with a back up resource in a window just in case I forget something. (Damn shoulder armor is tricky for me though.)

This short comic is actually a bit of a prototype to how I'll do comics in the future. I worked on the line art first (I still have to finish 2 panels in page 4, most of page 5 and it looks like there will be a page 6.) then I started the detailing and such afterwards. Seems to be a better approach then working on them one at a time like I used to.
Page 1 was actually the one page that took me the most time because of the middle panel with the Infinity's Hangar background with several other characters and vehicles in it. Otherwise I think these first 3 pages line arts took me about a day's worth of work (not just 1 day but combined hours.)

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Dragunalb In reply to Guyver89 [2014-03-30 04:56:49 +0000 UTC]

I see. I do the very same. If I want to draw something, I train myself until I know it by heart. With the ODSTs I still consider the helmet quite complicated to draw though, so when I'm in doubt, I still use a figure or a screenshot as a reference. I prefer the Halo3 - ODST model over the Reach model though ^^
Your drawn ODSTs look very professional though as if they're coming straight out of Reach and I mean that in a good way!

Hm, sketching it all out first seems to be an interesting way of managing a comic. Maybe I should try that too instead of drawing one page by one. But first I'd have to find the time to draw the comic I have in mind anyways.

Anyways I'll keep on following this comic of yours. The first pages look great!

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Guyver89 In reply to Dragunalb [2014-03-30 06:38:07 +0000 UTC]

I would've gone Halo 3 with their design but the gripe I had with their helmet was the piece that connects the top half of the design with the bottom half looks flimsy www.halopedia.org/images/9/93/…

While the slight redesign of it in Reach made it look strong and menacing and more detailed www.halopedia.org/images/3/3a/… .

 Halo Reach's ODSTs were the most detailed on their models and looked more... military like. All designs in Halo Reach for me are the definitive Halo look. Well anything that Isaac Hannaford the concept artist had created for the franchise was perfect. (The Halo 4 ODST is so.... simple and boring I don't even recognize it at all.)

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Dragunalb In reply to Guyver89 [2014-04-01 17:35:37 +0000 UTC]

True, that's why I tend to slightly modify the helmet to make it look a bit tougher than it is in Halo3. All in all I stick to the looks of the Halo3 - ODST model though.

I do like Reach's take on the ODST armor when it comes to the upper half of the body. The lower half however looks too random military for my taste whilst in Halo3 the boots and all the armor for the legs was somewhat iconic to me and the perfect transition between regular marine armor and Spartan armor. Also the jumpsuit isn't skintight in Reach anymore as it was in Halo3 so that kinda leaves me with the weird image of ODSTs wearing diapers under that suit.
All in all I liked some of the takes Reach offered when it came to UNSC armor but I think sometimes it went a bit too far away from Halo3 and came up with something more random sci-fi. But that's just me. I prefer Halo3/ODST armor but I also tend to mix the different variations to get better results in my drawings.
And yeah, the ODST armor in Halo4 was very bad. Reminds me of a soldier wearing Lego pieces as armor.

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