Love is a battlefield (Patreon)

As Pat Benatar said YouTube. This is a Patreon reward for Richard Westberry and he asked me to do a drawing of Princess Cadence in armor/barding. Now he stated that he didn't wanted Cadence's armor to look like Celestia and Luna's and I didn't want it to be too close of a match to the armor I did recently for Tempest Shadow.  

     So after some discussion with my patron we settled on an armor that  was inspired by the half, and three quarter armor often worn in the late 16th century. One of the advantages of this armor style is that the  burgonet helmet often worn with it evoke some of the lines of the  helmets worn ancient Greece and Rome which loops to appearance of the  plate worn by the palace guard in Canterlot. This is not accidental since the burgonet helmet came into existence  during the Italian Renaissance when interest in ancient world suddenly exploded.

    One thing that was fun to play around with is what we would consider the swept hilt design of the sword. Since the sword  is meant to be wielded by a alicorn/unicorn by their telekinesis the  bars on it are not there protect the hand, but instead exist expressly to catch, hold, and bind an enemies blade.