ART WAR 3 | 2D | Villains | Valerie - Blood Archer | remenance1832

[remenance]

Valerie is a confident and charismatic killer with the ability to manipulate blood. Her weapon of choice is an ornate longbow that can fire multiple projectiles at once that have been shaped from the red stuff.

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[remenance]

Mood Board and Initial Sketches.
Before I start the proper exploration I wanted to get the important early stuff set down in my head as the chest armour design and backpack was were this idea originally started in my head.
Ill work more on the proportions im sure but im happy so far with this after looking at the designs on the moodboard which will give some good framework for early designs.

Up next ill give a more detailed explanation of the character, their personality and flesh out a general look before exploring different design possibility for each part of the character.

[remenance]

Valerie is a Proud Huntress who sees killing as a sport. For the most part she is more patient than her other vampiric kin as she opts to collect much of the blood from her prey into the relic attatched to her back, ready for use at a later time.

Valerie is able to manipulate the gallons of blood stored within the device to craft arrows for her longbow and often enters a frenzy during the heat of battle, raining more and more projectiles down up her enemies as more blood is spilt.

Some development and i think im happy with these general proportions for the armour so will begin making some variations within these guidelines.

[remenance]

1 Original design, i like the overall forms but can be developed more.
2 Upper leg section could be interesting and chunkier gauntlet is a keep.
3 Larger tassets is nice and keeps the silhouette I want, overall i like this the most.
4 Little too much going on and i like the initial design for the chest area more that this.
5 Channelling gauntlet will be explored more as a means to get the blood into the bow.
6 Thigh armour is nice on this one so may try that with 3's everything else.

Overall I like 3 but will add a few features from the rest of them before designing the blood container for her back and then later her bow. Next Ill explore a couple of the ideas brought up in this section, in particular a more chunky gauntlet and arm that can be another way of manipulating blood as it moves from her back into the bow directly.

[echoriel]

Hey! Good job! You have so many ideas with the armor ;O
They all look interesting but i'd say 3rd and the 6th look the strongest on the design.
I like 6th one the most. It has a nice balance between larger shoulder piece and nice sides of the legs. And even though the armor covers one arm and gives it assymmetrical look I like that the piece covers clavicles horizontaly and balances the whole thing out.

[remenance]

Valerie's bat form, when she enters an uncontrollable frenzy to dominate the battlefield. Next ill work out how exactly I want her blood quiver to look along with how it could function/ move blood aboot. Bow designs will be soon as well along with how both could maybe look different in bat form.

[sanguine]

Gorgeous design and beautiful colors

[Remenance2]

Thank you, this is same person even tho different account as this website is buggy AF and deleted my old account potentially :')

[Remenance2]

IMPORTANT
Any future posts will be done via this account as my old one has been deleted due to a buggy interface that wouldnt display any correct account info, only showing the old account, when i tried to delete the old account it deleted the new one instead so gj all involved

[mr_dessin]

Very cool design and colours !

[Remenance2]

Designs for her blood quiver, will do some sketches of her bow with some poses and blood effects next.

[Remenance2]

Design for the weapon and some further dev on her clothes, boots n belt in particular.

I think ill leave some of the more dynamic poses with weapon and abilities till a bit later on once ive consolidated her design properly, so next ill do another ''final'' (lol jk) front and back view of her, perhaps in bat mode as well, with the adjustments ive worked out for her cloths.

My focus here was making Valerie's design interesting but not too crowded and noisy as i liked the initial silhouettes and simplicity.

The last front and back version I did was also before I made the bat form of her so this time ill make sure to incorporate more stuff into the design that hints at her transformation as well as aspects that can alter in interesting ways when she does morph.

[sanguine]

The bow is looking awesome, I really like the design with those two teeth coming right off the grip, it's very appealing and fresh!

[Remenance2]

Yea I like the teeth coming off the front altho am unsure about the rest of it XD gonna do another design of it later that links into her gauntlet that Im also gonna improve. The idea was that theres a ring that kinda rotates to fire more arrows or something

[Remenance2]

Decided upon her regular forms appearance now. Will do some more ideas for her bat form then create another page like this for it.

[krizevil]

Nice character and ideas so far, keep it up!

[Remenance2]

having lil break for this atm but hers a wip of some work into her bat form.

[Remenance2]

Will get back to posting regularly now. heres a little doodle for now of a potential companion bat hound/ chunky boi