Cog-Knight Design process

Potential silhouettes for cog knight. I was experimenting a lot with different shapes. I like all of them tbh, but ultimately I decided that 5 fit his personality best. I gave him 1’s feather tho

Very early rough mock-ups of cog knights helmet. Oh my.

Final mock up of cog knights helmet. This is when I realized I captured how I was seeing him in my head. I really wanted him to have some kind of brow ridge looking area on his helmet so that he can emote by moving his face around.

After I figured out his silhouette and helmet I could then start designing his armor

After making the 3 variations I decided to merge all my favorite elements into one sketch. This is the design that I would go off of from now on

Final render and material references. During this whole process I got really obsessed with researching antique automatons so I put a lot of real automaton parts in his design like cams