These guys took quite a lot of drawing since the Gunslinger and Swordslinger in past games just recycled existing weapons, while here I had to make new weapons to match the style.

You can probably guess what the historic inspirations are for each of the 4 enemy types…

Here’s an image showing the steps in designing and drawing a new foe… though in this case it’s based on an existing one.

The drawing starts with Flash’s line tool, before being converted into shape fills and smoothed out a bit, and finally shaded in. I need to pose the foe a bit while drawing to make sure it can do all the poses I will need later.

Extra detail: their hats become damaged when these foes are hurt.