ART WAR | 2D | WitchHunter Knight | Perrin

[link872]

Name Perrin Sargent
Email link872@msn.com
Website https://www.facebook.com/PerrinsArt

Here is my final concept sheet and my final piece:

So i thought my chosen hero would be a Fantasy witch hunter sent to defend against, hunt and kill the Sci-Fi heretic invaders .
My witch hunter is not a contemporary witch hunter design however does take design elements from contemporary witch hunter design. I really wanted to avoid contemporary design and make something more unique to myself yet still give a witch hunter type feeling through a knight. I talk a little bit more about my witch hunter design elements throughout my posts.

The final image design changed a little from sketch to final image. The final piece loses the dead bodies i had littering the staircase, there was a few reasons for this the main being that i felt like the image gave a better narrative with just blood down the stairs and with a link to the door on the right of the image and with less human characters littering the screen we had more focus on my central hero. I could go on and on and talk about perspective lines and colour and other elements of my final piece but ultimately all it comes down to is if it looks good and i will let the judges be the judge of that lol.

Thanks to everybody who commented and who will comment and to the judges for giving their time to do this and to everyone at cubebrush for the opportunity. As i mentioned i am just an amateur and competitions like this really motivate and improve my abilities. thank you.

[link872]

Just some quick silhouettes before i head off to bed. nothing really to look at yet.

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So i chose a silhouette design from my last post that i liked and started playing with it some more also moving on to a basic sketch before bed. I liked the idea of this witch hunter knight having a large rapier with handguards sort of representing a ribcage which follows the theme of witchhunters and the undead.

The helmet design is that of a typical witchhunter hat merged into a steel helmet which i really thought was unique and brought out the silhouette. I tried to add some witchhunter like triangle shapes and have some crusader (as they ARE Holy knights) like robes and bulky top of helmet.

I'm pretty happy with my basic design sketches and because i'm short on time the next phase will be rendering out the character while refining the design. After that i will hopefully have time to do a full illustration with my character implemented.

[rruiz]

like the design , my only criticism that sword does not seem to match the witch hunters design. the sword feels more ornate and mystical and complex and fantastical, were as the night seems more grounded to a more realistic style.

[link872]

Thanks for the advice! I might do some quick rapier sketches before i move onto the full character render.
Now that i look back at it i feel the same way, i still want a two handed rapier though, i will just ground the design a bit more

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So i've been busy with UNI however i finished a basic sketch to start painting over. I also changed the sword design to a more grounded design which i like more.

I have started painting my design but my next upload will just be my finished character painting and hopefully if i have time after that i can work on a full illustration

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WIP

So i started painting my Witch Hunter Knight. It is not complete yet but atleast looks a little nice - using no pictures has been a challenge for me as required by the brief as i use them
for basic texture usually.
He has plenty of silver to protect himself from the undead, especially around his neck where he has alot of armor to protect from vampire bites. All chrome metal u can see on him is silver, the white is painted steel. I'm starting to think this knight is more of a witch defender (defends against witches) than hunter as his heavy armour prevents him from tracking down and pursuing witches.

I may give him a cape later i'm not sure.
Comments and critiques welcome. thanks

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Ok so this is my final design rendered. I could keep going with the rendering however i think i have time for a final illustration so i wont bother.
I am pretty happy with how the render turned out and the design. the white sheet connected to his hip (that has bloodstains on it) is a sheet used for wrapping and discarding dead witches or 'dead' undead lol.

The silver capped boots can also be used to kick and pierce witches.

Anyhow, i'm thinking of having a scene with the silver witch hunter knight either killing a witch or walking through an abandoned dirty old-english town for my final illustration.

comments and critiques welcome. thanks.

[link872]

New update.

Just a sketch of my full scene illustration, not much too look at yet, i'll add a detailed explanation of this scene on my next upload, currently busy.

critiques and comments welcome

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Another update. started to paint my scene, still got a bit to go.
I have yet to even add blood at all dripping down the stairs and even start painting the dead bodies i sketched in earlier on the steps. I will add some sort of witchcraft sign on the door to the right aswell.

critiques and comments welcome.

[berrysquare]

I love your chraracter and the illustration so far... only its hard to see the character on the illustration. Hes a bit far away??

[link872]

I wanted a piece to show the environment he is in, i am not a fan of character illustrations without a refined setting, but that is just a personal preference :P.
In the final illustration he is more the center focal point.

Thanks for the comment though

[link872]

I believe this is my final illustration. I am running out of times and i have school work to attend to, however i am still happy with how it turned out.
I will add a detailed description of design and other finer points once i upload this to the top of this thread.