Final design for Mukhadi in all his glory I changed some of the design elements as I went along, as they looked decent illustrated alone but when added to the character, they clashed with the design or just looked odd.
Biggest change was to the legs, abdomen and the arrangement of the accessories.
The initial final looked fine till i felt like the legs were too short so I elongated those and it looks more in proportion now. I'll be using this figure for the front display of my character in the final illustration sheet.

Did a couple of palette tests, I'm definitely leaning towards the red robes, i kinda had that image in mind since the beginning, it would definitely be a colour Mukhadi would pick to indicate the importance of himself and his riches. The jewelery too.
Not fond of the purple palette so I wont be going with that one.

Little zoom into the details since its hard to see in those thumbnails

Thumbnails for final illustration, some of them are a lot stronger and dynamic than others. Not sure which idea to work on. I'm liking the final idea, tricking an important figure, either a king or a duke or something. If i did i might rework the angle.

Final character sheet lineart almost done. just a couple of details left.

{{WIP}} Progress is running slowly as i've injured my shoulder but progress is progress nonetheless ^_^ I've changed the colour scheme a little as I wasn't happy with them. There's something still off colour-wise with with the trousers and waist scarf thingy. I've never illustrated silk and other materials before so much of this is pretty experimental and might change.
I've changed the colour of his walking stick to a more ash coloured wood to give a bit more of an ominous feel off.

More progress on finals, hopefully I meet the deadline!

Completed my character turnaround, A lot of this piece was experimental since it was my first time trying to recreate surfaces and textures in such a short space of time too, and I feel like i've learned a lot

I've decided on the final illustration from the thumbnails I posted a couple of days ago. I really liked the feeling of the last thumbnail since it gave off a bit of a different feeling from the previous ones (it was also cooler haha)

So far i've sketched a quick layout of objects people etc.+ perspective.

Progress WIP,
I've been experimenting with a bunch of different brushes to try and recreate textures (like the gold and marble etc.) its also my first time to paint without line-work incorporated into it so everything is a learning curb ^_^. Still got lots to do in the time left though

Thank you ^_^ your work is looking pretty neat too, here's to hoping we get it done on time haha. Good luck!

progress

Progress shot I tried to upload yesterday during the outage

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Final Submission

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Name: Hannan Almasyabi
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spudistic/
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/spudistic

Character design sheet:

Final illustrated concept:

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I enjoyed working on this challenge and learnt a lot, I didn't get to finish the illustration to a level I was happy with due to clashes with my studies but It was a learning progress and many things were a 'first time to do' sort of thing, i've never done lineless art before, or stainglass, metal etc. etc. So a lot of it was experimental and really fun to do!
Thank you for this opportunity and hopefully we can all grow as artists and as a community ^_^