ART WAR 4 | 2D | War of the Elements | Ancient Tree Ent | benjaminpami

I've chosen to create an Earth Elemental for my champion. It's a Tree Ent that will be depicted battling a lightning monster.

These are the thumbnails I made when figuring out the design for my earth elemental

This is the sketch of my Tree Ent with linework and some values, I did this right on top of the silhouette

This is the final concept design for my Tree Ent but I am not 100% happy with it and am going to change a few things in the final illustration

These are the designs I did for the lightning monster, these went a lot quicker because I didn't bother with linework I just did silhouettes and then found the forms right on top of them

Then I started working on my final illustration, I began by doing a bunch of comp thumbnails once I had a comp I liked I started fleshing out the silhouette

After I had a comp I liked fleshed out I put four of them on the same canvas and did some color comps, this is as far as I've gotten now. I'm planning on going with the top left color comp.

I've changed my mind, I like the top left color comp but also the top right comp feels a lot more dynamic. On the other hand though I can't say I'm in love with the color in the top right. I think I am going to do some more comps and make a decision then.

more color comps

Thanks for the advice, I tried to use as few values as possible in the comp when thumbnailing for the sake of simplicity but it can be easy to forget to diversify them to add more depth later on. I'll make sure I keep that in mind.

I've settled on a color and value scheme, this is a wip of the actual illustration

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