Chess Pieces: Preliminary Models

Here we are, the last project of the semester! What a journey it has been! All that's left is to create a set of chess pieces that we're going to 3D print.

I'll skip the formalities and get straight to the designs.

This first set of designs were very rough and far too complex for what I should be doing, and let's be honest, where do I go from here?
So instead I decided to take a more simplistic and modernist approach to the whole project.

In the picture you see above, you will see my first draft for what I wanted my King to look like. The only thing that I really liked about it though was that top bit. Let's keep that and scrap the rest!

Ok.... It's done... whew that was tiring... Ok, so this is the preliminary models for what I'm thinking.
I love the fact that they come across simple yet complex, and I love that each of them look like they belong together which isn't an easy task in itself.
I definitely thing I'll be doing some sort of rendition of this for the final piece.
Let's get printing!!!

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