ART WAR | 2D | Project Sol | alykam

Theme : Sci Fi
Name : Alykam Burdzaki
Email : alykam@outlook.com
Page : https://www.artstation.com/artist/alykam
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Hey there, I'm going for a Sci-Fi character. A female bounty-hunter in a desert planet (something like Dune, Mars or Tatooine). As soon as I can I'll post some wips.

Sue was a pilot on the Great Desert Championship, a competition that takes place in most of the big floating cities. She never won, only being a decent racer, far from the champions. But in her greediness, she took onto an genetic experiment that enhanced her senses, making her the perfect racer and, as she did't know yet, soldier.

After wining too many races, the big guys behind the experiment started asking favors, the kind one can't refuse. She took the firsts ones, after all, it's wall for the money. But as she become more known and dangerous, bigger contracts started to appear, and so she killed all the big guys that made her at first.

The whole thing went public and she was put to disgrace. Hiding for some years before the bounty hunter called Sol appeared taking contracts far from the big centers. A bounty hunter so good that after a while the biggest criminals have made a deal on a shared contract, so they won't use her on each other business. Sending her to the most dangerous places to deal with people nobody can explain what they do.

-- Story ends here
After writing all this up I started a bunch of thumbnails on her armor, before going for the helmets I will pick the one I find better.

As it is a Desert Planet and she deals with all the kinds of dangers, she would be better fit in a full armor, but light one, as she is all for DPS. From my references, a lot of Destiny characters seemed better suited for what I was doing.

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After this I picked 6 that stood out for me:

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I've never participated in a forum like this before, I think it will be fun. Also I'm really satisfied on the concept so far. What you guys think? All comments, opinions and critics are welcome.

Pushing forward two of the designs:

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I think the first one turned more aggressive and to up close combat. I liked the idea of pistons all over the armor, enhancing her strength, something like the Crysis armor. Hence the two sub-machine guns. But i still have to explore them.

The second one turned more recon and stealth, sniper like. I still like the first one more, but I'll try to merge them a little, see what comes out.

Hey guys, here is a little update in the direction I'm going.

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I want to make a few helmets before choosing one. Her armor is meant to protection and strength enhancement, through those pistons in her arms and legs. Witch are covered with leather, damaged in some points to keep more interesting and asymmetrical.

Other than that I need to work in her weapons, and motorbike.

Any thoughts and critics are welcome

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After sketching a bunch of helmets, I picked the one I liked more and shaded. From these, the 5th is the one I liked more. The empty plate instead of glass suggest the it's a high advanced technology, with allows to see in a screen inside, or even better, connected to wires direct in her vision nerves, sending images to her brain.

On the overall look, I want her to look professional and aggressive, who would kill without hesitating.

What you guys like it. What do you think of the helmets?

@Khulim Thanks, I'm glad you liked. Yeah, I'm thinking if I can place cams somewhere on it and still make it look cool. Probably I'll make a few studies in this matter without calling the helmet design finished.

@Arulan Thank you. Yeah, the Design one was more what I had in mind before the studies. But now I go with the 5th, I'm just thinking in changing the symbol to the opposite side of the three holes to break symmetry. Probably I'll change something else while I render the final concept.

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Defining her entire suit and finishing the line art from the front view concept. I`ll just design the weapons before the next line pass. Then, to block and color studies.

I thinking in giving her some kind of vehicle, a motorbike or something the floats. Both fast, I`ll see.

Any thoughts on the suit?

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I did a lot of silhuete studies of guns on my sketch book and picked the one i liked more. Now I realize that I must fix some problems on the suit. Must of them I can solve on the rendering, but I need to add some kind damage and put some repairs to show she is a long time doing this. Also I should not use military colors, it needs to be something like Boba Fett. I'll see on the color studies.

About the weapons, I like the twins feel, so I named them Glory and Gore, yeah, from the song.

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Some studies on her guns, I liked how they came out. Now I'll finish up her design and colors before choosing the guns' colors. For me they need to be fast and destructive. Using ammo to do flesh damage and to penetrate armor. For larger foes she carries explosives.

Thank you. I was thinking in going with both, one for each hand. But now, looking at the designs I think they are not sci-fy-ish enough. So I had the idea of placing some batteries. So the gun would be an hybrid and the bullets would be propelled by the explosion and accelerated by the electromagnetic field. What do you think?

I did some color studies yesterday.

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What do you guys think of them?