Horse Cavalier

School character design assignment to design an anthropomorphic animal with a certain profession

Silhouette 11 was chosen for its more unique take on a centaur, mixing mount and its rider.

Design incorporates motifs taken from the garments that cavaliers and their horses wore throughout many eras in time ranging from roman to medieval and to the 1700s
The final design mixes and matches my favourite features of previous iterations to create a balance of strong armour and noble cloth garments
The weapon chosen was a simple jousting lance

Colours chosen were largely inspired by the colourings of real horse breeds and the colours often found in historical garments/armour
Garment colours were kept simple and vibrant as is often with war colours, often bearing the colours of the noble houses they represented
In the end, a rather primary colour scheme of blue, gold/yellow with a fiery reddish orange was chosen for its vibrancy
The muted and cool hues of the clothes allowed the fiery mane of the character to take centre stage
The colours of the horse itself was refined with some gradients at the extremities to give some visual interest