ART WAR | 2D | BeastMaster | refraction

refraction 2017-02-02 06:32:05 UTC #1

Not sure if I'll have time to finish an entry, but wanted to get the thread started.

Basic idea is an elf, but she'll have to get more interesting than this..

..Because she has the ability to control the forest animals!

jenniferbrincho 2017-02-03 04:46:37 UTC #2

Cool! Just throwing this out there...since she can control animals, maybe she herself has some animal features? Like the eyes of a wolf, the antlers of a deer or something? Anyway, interested to see where you take the design

Pat_Boiteux 2017-02-03 05:28:26 UTC #3

Very cool composition and character design! Can't wait to see your color pass

refraction 2017-02-18 20:13:23 UTC #4

@jenniferbrincho Thanks! yeah for sure, I'll try some more wild and animal features to her design, furs and bones.

Haven't done too much but going to try and finish up with the idea I have here.

I tried changing perspective, but I didn't like it, can foreshorten more and get overlap but kills silhouette.

Now trying to get a colour scheme going, working on the wolves and generally fumbling it forward

refraction 2017-02-24 06:41:40 UTC #5

Looking at a lot of League of Legends splash art to see what I can do to to clean this up and make it read better with contrast and lighting.. it'll take a while but I'll submit whatever I have by the deadline anyway.

refraction 2017-02-26 04:34:23 UTC #6

Pushing values around, trying to get it as far as I can in time for the deadline!

refraction 2017-02-27 04:10:48 UTC #7

Still needs so much work

jenniferbrincho 2017-02-27 04:59:26 UTC #8

It's looking good, though! Keep it up; you can do it

refraction 2017-02-28 07:39:12 UTC #9

Going to call this finished now. There's a lot I'd like to fix and do differently process wise, but glad to have the deadline to keep me focused on pushing through and sticking with the idea I had.

With this contest, I wanted to get practice doing the "splash art" type illustrations and I think I learned a lot! Would do a much more thorough design and figure out all the composition problems early on, figure out a nice colour and lighting scheme.. So I'm glad to have participated!

The "concepting" phase was really brief on this, I'd definitely do proper research and iteration next time round. Her design changed on the fly while I tried to make the illustration work better - taking out the cape and extra bone armor etc.

Final Illustration:

Concept Sheet: