Tuesday 24 April 2012

Generic General-Type Template - of the fanciful variety!


I was playing around with one of the elaborately laced Royal Navy templates and also producing a feather-edged tricorne, of the type worn by generals in the 18th century (not to mention Baron von Munchhausen; rewatched the Terry Gilliam film recently ;-)), and the result was, I think, rather pleasing. I aim to create some authentic generals' uniforms (hence the feather-edged tricorne), which are long overdue, but in the meantime this is a pleasant, if rather fanciful, version. (Then again, given the freedom generals of that period had in inventing their own uniforms, I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone somewhere wore this exact uniform! :-))

I haven't yet created a blank for this, as to show the feather detail in a non-vector format the template needs to be very big, but these do show what fun can be had with recolouring some of the templates already created.

Update: I've now added a somewhat Russian-style general's uniform in green and red - also rather attractive, I think. :-)

Update 2: Added a rather Austrian-like variant in white and red and a French-like variant in blue and red.

9 comments:

  1. Now we need a figure maker to produce these generals...

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  2. Thanks, CH. :-)

    Yes, Bill, they would look good, wouldn't they?

    Hope all's well.

    Thanks both for commenting.

    Cheers,

    David.

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  3. Thanks, Ray. :-) They do look fairly impressive, don't they?

    Cheers,

    David.

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  4. Oh-ohhhh... I'm foreseeing some work on my own plates is compulsary now :D

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  5. Hi Lluis,

    I look forward to seeing what you do - your graphics work is good anyway so I'm sure you'll come up with something interesting. :-)

    Cheers,

    David.

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