some drawings to get an idea of what I'm doing

I want to get started sculpting fairly soon, the first thing I did after finding my reference was to do a painting study based on one of the helmets, the purpose of doing so was simply to get myself working with the armour and familiarise myself with it and some of the intricacies. And I got a bit of practice too.

After the study, I did a drawing based on some the qualities I like about the helmet, but changing certain things for originality (as I didn't necessarily want the character to actually be an Ottoman) and making it fit with the character and my original inspiration.

I wanted to obscure the face still but I decided to get rid of the idea of the character limiting the senses to only those necessary as it may be better just to stick to one idea without complicating it, I wanted to stick with the one arrow thing because that works better as a concept.

After the initial sketch I created some very small spin off sketches based on what I was thinking from the main one and using some of my reference images to work some ideas into the design.