I could have just used coloured blocks like I did originally, but I was looking through Eduard Wagner's European Weapons and Warfare, and I decided to see what I could do along those lines.
I haven't done any serious drawing for years and it just wasn't working. So I 'borrowed' an image from Wagner, and used that as a basis, but adapted the style.
After some black and white images, I drew with a pikeman, simple, coloured with pencil crayons.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/xGGBpvV/20230909-171202.jpg)
After a lot of initial tracing and changing I came up with this sample sheet with different styles of figure but they're all pikemen and all at the Order posture. But I needed more than pikemen and you don't perform drill evolutions at the Order, you would use the Advance instead.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/kcTPtrm/Sample.jpg)
I was happy with the way that the figures scaled down (reduced in Powerpoint from 19cm in height down to about 2cm) and how the colours looked like those from Wagner, I just needed to improve the number and poses of the figures.
So, next I drew the pikeman, and an officer at the Advance posture.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/1GqHgGX/Cam-Scanner-09-10-2023-12-53-1b.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/qnmd1kh/Cam-Scanner-09-10-2023-12-53-1c.jpg)
With pikes drawn in, I decided to do some more officers. Pikemen (and muskets) you can get away with one image copied and pasted enough times to make up a body of soldiers, but you need officers to command each body, so I drew some single use figures.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/9TjvPvM/20230913-175105.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/F58W3z9/20230913-175129.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/sJjcd2g/20230913-175159.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/cb6hCfJ/20230913-175230.jpg)
With the officers sorted out I needed the shot element - musketeers - a couple of standard bearers, and drummers.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/BtwV7QP/20230914-142739.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/dBB0Xvh/20230917-135756.jpg)
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/vwSCQX6/20230917-135819.jpg)
Lastly, I redrew the pikemen - one armoured and one unarmoured.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/b33Vcqd/20230914-142758.jpg)
Finally (for the moment) I had a sample to work with.
![Image](https://i.ibb.co/287X1wb/Sample-004.jpg)
So that's about a week's work - and I'm quite happy with the end result - it's something to work with.
Thanks for looking in.