Second hand Research

After doing the first 25 silhouettes, i started doing some second hand research on the internet, primary i have been looking at stances, in primarily kendo, from their i started looking into other sword styles like iaido and other weapon styles, such as nagata, bow stances, and some hand to hand postures.

Once i had a nice range of posses for this character concepts, i started looking at other parts of the project i should look at in this case the armour that samurai and ronin would of used in the Edo period. As i have already quite a few armour photographs in my first hand research I didn't look to deeply into the second hand research when looking for images for armours.

This image will be very useful, when i start looking at how armour fits on the characters.

The final Second hand research, I wanted to look into was my environment images, looking into buildings, scenery and other environment inspiration for when i start working on my environments artwork.

This concludes my second hand research at this point in the project, if i feel i need to do more then i will upload it when time comes.