First I used a cylinder for the crown and moved the top verts so that the back was lower than the front. Then I deleted some polys in the back to make an opening and capped the ends. I extruded some edges around the crown to give it some texture.
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For the foil wings I used a plane deleted some polys and moved some verts to form the shape. I then selected the outside edges and extruded them out the back to make the shape look more solid.
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For the snake I started with a plane and using a reference pic and edge select I added more polys to get the final shape. I then extruded the outer edges out the back of the snake, mirrored the snake behind the original and attached the copy to the original and welded the verts.
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The gem is a hedra and the outer gold a tube and the back a cylinder.
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The half moon is made from a cylinder, by deleting some polys and welding some verts til you get the shape you wanted. The snake and the wing are just mirrored to the other side.
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Before I mirrored the snake I uv mapped it and made a bump map in photoshop to give the snake more texture. I gave the bump around 15%.
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I added some lights til I was happy with the lighting and rendered in v-ray using default settings.