#greathelm

[we-are-knight]

A Knight, by Polina Kolesnik

[sceptixfakemon]

If I want to give personality to helmets. eg. making a knight look paranoid or badass or jovial, etc. How do you give these looks to their helmets?

so this is a little outside my area of skill for character art but i'll try to explain what i know since knights' helmets serve as a "faceless" face, they're normally not very expressive outside of their static existing "face", but since cartoons and comics are not real, we can mold a faceless face into expressions just like a regular face

i've used this bascinet with just eyeslits but there's some with a "mouth" that you can also use, additionally i've conveyed the emotions using the plume, effectively treating it as a functional bodypart. this of course applies to any helmet ever:

have fun!

[wearemercs]

the pointlessness of the current human experience by Sam Yang

[eric8a]

I heard about a little game called Greathelm.

So I decided to paint up some knights for the game. 2 down. Four to go.

[knutthegreat995]

Still need to finish painting these but they are going to be for a game called Greathelm! Yes I do have one that is supposed to kind of be like Askeladd from Vinland Saga and also a Thorkell the Tall kind of guy as well! They still need there hair painted and som of them need their weapons finished and some of their clothes as well!

[medievalsnippets]

Source: The Medieval Knight -- Christopher Gravett

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Text: Knight, c. 1210 The central figure wears a mail coat as a main body-defence. It reaches his knees, while the arms extend to form mail mittens. Beneath can be seen a vertically quilted aketon (padded tunic). 1) Mail coat. 2) Mail mufflers or mittens. 3) Interlinked riveted mail rings. 4) Iron scale armour. 5) Helmet fitted with face mask. 6) Rounded style of helmet. 7) Cylindrical style, here with a nasal (defence for the nose). 8) Chin-defence. 9) Conical helmet with conjectural padded lining. 10) Mail coif thrown back to show padded arming cap and lined aventail. 11) Strip of mail to guard leg. 12) Mail chausses over hose, and tied to waist belt. 13) Iron prick sur; the leather is bolted to the terminal, c.1200-1300. 14) Surcoat worn as a super-tunic. 15) Long tunic with Magyar sleeves. 16) Sword, c.1200 or earlier. 17) Sword, c.1200-1300. 18) Sword, .1200-1300. 19) Exploded view of sword hilt to show wooden two-part grip. 20) Mace with moulded copper-alloy head, c.1200

[weareinquisitor]

Inquisitor by  Arseniy Fazlyev

Suggested by @wearepaladin

[we-are-knight]

International Heraldry Day, by Brian Abshier.