Name: Kyle Beavers
Website: kylebeavers.com
Email: kylegbeavers@gmail.com
Twitter: @KyleGBeavers
Facebook: @kylegbeavers
Instagram: @kylegb27
Hey everyone! My name is Kyle and this is my first post here. I am a recent art school graduate and hope to someday soon have a career as a character concept artist for a gaming or film company. I am from the Seattle area and gaming is a big presence here in the pacific northwest. For this contest I have chosen the dark side (red lightsaber ignites haha).
The idea that I have been playing with for my submission is a story that takes place in the future, so sci-fi / fantasy, where a rift opens creating a portal to another dimension of our world and in this alternate universe there exists elves, dwarves, dragons, etc. I imagine that they would be in the future as well, along a similar timeline as our own. My character that I am playing with is an Orc. In this story I imagined the orcs to be created by the elves as a scientific experiment gone wrong, and the elves create a portal technology that can allow them to move through numerous universes (somewhat similar to Rick's portal gun from Rick and Morty but on a much larger scale). They leave all of the orc experiments to fend for themselves in a universe where the earth is a nocturnal planet. Now the orcs have figured out a way to return and have declared war against the elves to seek their revenge. I imagine that the female orcs are genetically more intelligent than the male orcs and the male orcs make up the brute force of the war band. My character is the leader of the war band. I don't yet have a name picked out. So in essence, the story is sort of like World of Warcraft meets Halo meets Gears of War meets the Lord of the Rings.
Final Concept Sheet:
Final Illustration:
So I picked a thumbnail and from there just started sketching out a rough based off of the original sketch I made as well as the other orc soldier sketches I made.
Just cleaning up some linework here
These are the resource images I'm looking at for inspiration with the character and presentation piece
WIP
Presentation Piece WIP:
Presentation Piece WIP 2:
