general issue

today i thought a little bit about what my cobra soldiers would be wearing. i need to blend the iconic henchmen uniforms from the g.i. joe cartoon with something with a little more basis in the real world. the biggest challenge will be the helmets, as cool-looking helmets and practical ones seem to be mutually exclusive.

i started by photo referencing some SWAT team and military gear from real life, and was happy to see that some troopers really do wear faceplates.


this is the same blue i chose for zartan's pants, thinking that maybe he wouldn't be as different from the other troopers in my version as he was in g.i. joe, aside from the non-regulation hoodie.

this dark red circle was intended to be a stand-in for a cobra-like logo that i would design later, but now i'm thinking it looks pretty good.