A problem I realised a bit too late was that I was basing my character design too much on just the silhouette without giving any real context to the design at all, I didn't really have an inspiration for the setting or the clothing/armour design, the result was that I ended up with kind of a vague design with no idea of specific details/props or material, so in my mind everything was the same vague ma,terial and it didn';t transition well into the practical stage of sculpting, I couldn't picture the drapery of the material because it didn't have any strict property. I started thinking of material properties and I wanted some kind of silk clothing with armour in places like the feet hands and torso. My mind kind of went toward North African aesthetic based on that and then I just gave myself some time to think about it before acting further.
As I was thinking of the direction I wanted to go with the character at some point I started thinking of the character in the game Assassins Creed: Revelations Shahkulu.
As soon as I had the thought I knew instantly that that is what I wanted to base the design off of. Since Shahkulu's armour was based on Ottoman/Byzantine armour designs I looked into that and started gathering reference.
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