Yes, Chainmail Is Really Hard to Draw
And while Loubet loves creating Ultima-related artwork, there’s one aspect of drawing medieval warriors that he’s not so fond of—the chainmail. “I hate chainmail, and I have to paint it a lot,” he says. “It’s so hard to get right. Chainmail is my personal nemesis.” Loubet has one big tip for artists struggling with chainmail: Take a cue from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comics. “He basically has it so that you only see slanted lines indicating individual links just at the edge of the light, where it’s going from light to shadow, and it’s like, ‘Oh man, that’s an econom...
Source: wired.com
