José Rízal of Phillipines

I made him a little older and a little wiser for the modern age.

He is wearing a barong tagalog.



The barong tagalog is the national attire of Filipino men.The cloth are usually made of banana fiber which is called jusi or the more luxurious pineapple fiber called pina.The shirt is normally hand embroidered and is usually white but may come in different colors and designs.

During the Spanish occupation of the Philippines (over 300 years from 1561-1889) the barong tagalog was required by the Spanish government for Filipinos to be worn at most times. "Wearing the barong which is worn untucked and transparent was used by Filipinos during that time to distinguish them as indios or people who comes from the lower class of the society (natives).

It was untucked because only Spaniards can tuck their shirts and it was transparent to see that they are unarmed so as to ensure that they will not attempt to kill or harm any Spaniards .

Presently, it is worn as a business attire using cotton for normal wear or jusi and pina for more formal occasions
 
Great drawings!! They are so good I'm almost considering asking you some visual advice for Gustav Vasa and/or Franz Joseph ;)

Now to CivArmy: Since the medieval era is so great in the drawings, and yet your model is not so close to that look, I thought I should give you some advice on how to get that look:
Use the Irish Cap from Poser's default clothing prop library, deforming it and rotating it a bit (and changing the texture as well), to get something quite similar to the cap he's wearing. Then you could add a brooch or something to that cap, and if you could, some fluffy feather (though a bed, rigid prop might not look right, so be careful with that)
Then, there is a prop available somewhere on the web (perhaps made by PhilC, but I might be wrong), which is called Elizabethan collar, which you might use for his collar. The original prop is a bit too big and transparent, but modifying that could get a good result (check my Franz Joseph leaderhead to see how it should look)
The rest seems to be something you should experiment to get it right. It doesn't seem to be that difficult, though
 
jorde said:
Great drawings!! They are so good I'm almost considering asking you some visual advice for Gustav Vasa and/or Franz Joseph ;)

Now to CivArmy: Since the medieval era is so great in the drawings, and yet your model is not so close to that look, I thought I should give you some advice on how to get that look:
Use the Irish Cap from Poser's default clothing prop library, deforming it and rotating it a bit (and changing the texture as well), to get something quite similar to the cap he's wearing. Then you could add a brooch or something to that cap, and if you could, some fluffy feather (though a bed, rigid prop might not look right, so be careful with that)
Then, there is a prop available somewhere on the web (perhaps made by PhilC, but I might be wrong), which is called Elizabethan collar, which you might use for his collar. The original prop is a bit too big and transparent, but modifying that could get a good result (check my Franz Joseph leaderhead to see how it should look)
The rest seems to be something you should experiment to get it right. It doesn't seem to be that difficult, though
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Jorde, thanks for the tips :goodjob:
I've searched the collar and didn't find it :( , pls, send me it to my e-mail :) And about the Irish Cap, r u sure it has this name :confused: , I also have looked for it in my files and didn't find too (I use to mix props that comes with P5 with new ones).

thanks! :thanx:
 
Here is a sketch for the ancient era. The clothing is based off the two images below of King Lapu Lapu.


King Lapu Lapu


At dawn of April 27, 1521, Magellan invaded Mactan, a non-descript little coral island just off the coast of Cebu. He led a small force of 60 men to Mactan but because the northern gulf of Mactan was full of coral reefs, he could not land his boats with their powerful cannons. He and his men had to wade ashore on the shallow coral beach where he was met by chief Lapu-Lapu and his brave warriors who were armed only with bolos and kris (a curved knife). In the bloody battle that ensued, the Spaniards with their armor and guns were overwhelmed by the native warriors, led by Lapu-Lapu, and were all killed.

Lapu-Lapu was the first Filipino chieftain to resist the Spanish invasion and their attempt to make the Philippines a colony of Spain. For the next 54 years no Spaniard dared to set foot on Philippine soil and Lapu-Lapu went down in history as the Philippines first national hero.



I am just curious how you came to decide on Jose Rizal as the leader. He was a revolutionary, but he never lead the country. I would think Aguinaldo would make a better leader. Just curious.
 
I am just curious how you came to decide on Jose Rizal as the leader. He was a revolutionary, but he never lead the country. I would think Aguinaldo would make a better leader. Just curious.
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this is true...Rízal is probably considered as the romantic nationalist whilst Aguinaldo is considered by many as the first Filipino president ever. it could go either way i guess; especially for epic style games.

i would like to see an Aguinaldo leaderhead though...it'd probably be more relevant for a Philippine-American War scenario.
 
Here comes the new Medieval Era, it is cool:




Kal-El, the Ancient Era draw is cool too :goodjob: , but it could turn this LH too similar of other LH mine of this same region, the Javanese leader:



For this reason I tried change his style a bit in the Ancient Era.
 
Some more suggestions:

*Ancient era: Try giving him the look Kal-el gave him on his drawings. It might look "similar" to the Javanese one, but that'd be ok (after all, those regions are not "that" far away :p). What might help to differentiate both leaders would be: the facial shape itself, the earrings (which you can make with a couple of toruses), the beard (which you probably should paint onto the texture... very subtlely), a bit of longer hair, and the hair band (instead of... that "pirate" thingy)

*Modern era: try giving him the moustache, and shaping the hair as Kal-El drew it. You might achieve it with 4 - 5 balls, deformed and placed in the right places. Since the hair will be black, it won't look bad texture wise.

*Mid ages: Give him a beard, please. Again, you might have to paint it on the texture to get a good result (using the fantasy beard figure would give bad results, since it's too dark, thick and not thin enough). Also the hat prop could be more purple (and perhaps you should remove the original texture it has)

*Industrial era: You could try to take that hat away from him. It looks good, but if you manage to make a good hair out of balls, you'd want to try this era without a hat as well. Also, you've used that prop quite a lot of times, so if you find a chance to avoid using it, it'd be better for you (you might use it later, and so people wouldn't get tired of it ;) )
 
Ok, please remove the sunglasses from the modern era. These leaders aren't movie/rock stars/super athletes who think they are too cool for school. These are respectable politicians (if there is such a thing) who would be trying to be taken seriously. When was the last time you saw a president, prime minister, senator or conressman in sunglasses?
 
Kal-el said:
Ok, please remove the sunglasses from the modern era. These leaders aren't movie/rock stars/super athletes who think they are too cool for school. These are respectable politicians (if there is such a thing) who would be trying to be taken seriously. When was the last time you saw a president, prime minister, senator or conressman in sunglasses?
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My intentation was add normal glasses, but the position of the lights in this LH causes reflex in normal glasses, darking that glasses make the reflex decrease. For this reason his glasses doesn't have the "normal" color (transparent).
 
CivArmy s. 1994 said:
My intentation was add normal glasses, but the position of the lights in this LH causes reflex in normal glasses, darking that glasses make the reflex decrease. For this reason his glasses doesn't have the "normal" color (transparent).
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They still are too shiny. What you very probably did was darkening the diffuse colour, but all it would do is turning those glasses into some Hollywood shades. What you need to do in order to reduce its "shiny-ness", is darkening the specular colour, the one which affects how much light it will reflect, and which colour it will be: the darker it is, the less light it will reflect. Playing around with different colours can be good for some materials: a yellowish colour could be used when you want to give something a golden shine, a reddish colour might help to get some good coppers, etc
 
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