ART WAR 3 | 2D | Villains | Fallen cyberpunk angel | Fris

[Fris]

Hey everyone!
im going to be tackling the art war contest this year so good luck to everyone else joining as well! This character im going for is a angel condemned from heaven and has fallen in a cyber punk world!

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Final entry:

Name: Nova

Story: After being banished from the heavens for her action against the gods, nova crashed landed on earth in a time of heavy cyberpunk influence across the globe, having no where to go she feel on the lap of local gangs and mafia's running the cities, finding out about her abilities and story, the mafia's takes advantage of the situation and suits her up to fit in the culture and amplifies her powers through tech. Now she fly's around causing havoc around the cities and decimates anything in her way with her corrupted holy powers and equipment.
Concept sheet:

illustration:

[Fris]

To elaborate more on the character, this character (as said) has been casted out of heaven on to the new world filled with cyber punk influence and crime. Having no where to go this angel falls on the lap of local gangs and thugs and becomes a threat to the city it lives in. This angel has kept its powers of divine light and flight but shrouded in corruption. gender/race/abilities etc will be explored more in-depth as the week go by so stay tuned!

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[Fris]

Here are some early references exploring the character

[rgdraw]

Welcome to the contest!
Have fun and good luck! Curious to see what you're gonna do !

[rsanders]

Cool idea! Eager to see how it plays out.

[Fris]

Some early exploration of the character and ideas trying to solve some problems on how the character will fit in this world and how its powers will translate over, its still up in the air but having something is going to help narrow it down

[rgdraw]

Nice work! Do you have a preference already ? Or for the moment you're just putting ideas on paper?

[Fris]

just putting ideas down on paper, im going to explore more ideas on a wide scale for one or two more pages, then explore more narrowly on a direction after that.

[rgdraw]

Great! Can't wait to see that!

[Fris]

A couple more ideas explored, probably one more page should be good, let me know thoughts on whats been presented so far

[rgdraw]

Nice ! I really like the one on the left, she looks so badass

[PeterH]

Yeah, gotta agree with rgdraw, that one on the left is pretty cool. I also dig the one in the middle, but that might not fit the cyber punk theme quite enough, thats more of just a normal street outfit combined with some tech angel.

[Fris]

true true, i had a pattern idea that was going more the CP later on and explore more of a hip thuggish look but from a pure linework perspective it falls a bit short, so thanks for the feedback on that!

[Fris]

so i scrapped the last page and i started to narrow down the ones i enjoyed and tweaked them up a bit for more or less, still actively working on this page still so it subject to change in the future but im enjoying the direction its taking

[rgdraw]

Still a big fan of the big left one, but I really like bottom right one, I guess I have a thing for ladies with wings and big weapon x)

And I forgot to say it but great work so far, all of these looks amazing

[Fris]

Thank you!

[PeterH]

Like the bottom right as well as that left one. I think its the addition of the popped/fluffy collar that sells the hip thug aspect.

It really leaves the one on the left feeling really unnatural in the middle (not a bad thing). Its a fun jarring effect that will elicit a double take.

[edenriquebq]

Really like a lot the bottom right one too!

It's probably the most appealing, but the one on the left does look a lot more hardend thug-ish. The furr does make her wings less readable though.

Maybe integrate some furr and keep the weapon of the left one into the bottom right corner one?

[Fris]

so i fixed up the middle two abit and explored both of them in a exaggerated way, for the top one he's sapose to be on the full thug criminal route with guns and illegal tech and the bottom one is going more on the Greek angel side with some tech enhancements. As for the ones before, the left on took a back seat a bit, just little changes here and there, and same goes for the one on the right except i explored a bit more with fur coat idea and weapon a bit on the small thumbnails. Let me know your thoughts down below!

[Fris]

went ahead and just decide to pick the character on left and update and clean up some linework, probably tomorow or sunday i'll be moving to ethier the back of the character or color comps