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 Western Fantasy Tank, Eastern Fantasy Civilian.

I forgot to post these

More finished ones.

If there's time, I'll be changing aspects of some of these (Most likely the Horror ones). There's bits I'm not too happy with in them, but overall I think it'll do.

Also, the Western Fantasy Assassin is meant to have really long legs, but the pose makes it look like a mistake. It's a shame, because I think this particular pose suits her better than standing ones that show off the legs better. I'll just have to explain it in the book to make sure my intentions are clear.

Eastern Fantasies

I began the new group last week. I got off to a slow start, mainly because of the research. I don't know a lot about Japan and I wanted to make sure it was fairly accurate aesthetically and historically. There are some sites that have a lot of good info - though some were a bit hard to find - so I've been trying to catch up now. So far, I've done Civilian, Range and Support, and I't part way through the Assassin. The colour scheme (If you couldn't tell) is black, white, red, yellow and a bit of pink.

Horror Batch

I'm having a great time with these characters, I really am. I'm a sucker for horror, so getting to do this team now has been a bit of a pick-me-up.

Time's running out so I'm not spending as long on these design sheets. I'm aiming for 1.5 - 2 finished per day. That way, I get plenty of time to do my finished pieces. This means cutting it down to 1 coloured picture, several finished linearts and maybe a shaded one if it seems to need it. I'm trying to get some essential poses and things down so there's a decent reference there rather than a set of useless images.

Anyway, here are the Civilian, Range, Support and Tank!

EDIT: Looking back, they seem a little bare. I might add more pictures, especially on the Civilian and Support.

Western Fantasies

I started work on the Western fantasy characters, mainly assassin and civilian. Since we have flat viewings approaching (props to landlord for being so vague with the actual days of them), I had to take out my wireless again. Jack's been nice enough to let me borrow his computer to upload this.

The memory stick digested the assassin so the Photoshop file's now flattened. I might have a deflattened one somewhere if I'm lucky.

I kind of hit a snag with outfits for both of them, as neither really looked like proper Western fantasy. After doing some research, I realised that I think it's because they weren't revealing enough. I'm not a major fan of pointlessly sexy outfits, but without it, it didn't look right. So, I gave the assassin an exposed middle and the civilian some cleavage and hips.

And yeah, their proportions are odd, but I'm trying to go for two completely new fantasy creatures. I don't want to hog Jack's PC for too long so I won't go into depth, but basically

assassin = extra long legs, kind of short torso, wide glarey eyes.

civ = big head, long neck, wiiiide hips, tiny hands and feet, looks like a goat.

Western Civ's Colour Practice

Rhoda said I should try to draw one of the characters like the way I did that girl. I chose the Western Fantasy Civilian because she's an interesting shape so it would be a good challenge; and a challenge it was! I don't like it as much as the girl picture, but I'm glad I had a go.

I decided her species is a 'Quilish' race. Just so you know what's intentional and what's not, I'll briefly run over the anatomy.

A Quilish being has a ridge that goes down the centre of their face from the back of their scalp to the tip of their nose. They have horns that are smaller and straighter on females, while the males have longer, more twisty ones (I forgot to draw them in, dur). Their lower jaw is very small, giving females a more heart-shaped face. Males on the other hand, though their jaws are also small, have a wider chin, giving a less "pointy" appearance. The fairly flat (except for the ridge) shape of the nose, with the wide bridge, give a Quilish person an epicanthic fold. Their eyes are very large and the tip of their nose and their mouth are small.

Their ears are fairly big and elongated. They turn down at the end on both genders, but on males they curve back up in a soft flick at the tip.

Quilins have hair that can be remarkably naturally straight (Like the Civ), but can be of any style. Head hair doesn't grow on the ridge, but they are covered in a thin, fine fur which may have splotches of other colour.

Quilish colours can be varied but are often earthy.

And now, the picture. The first is the Civ with no ambient light and the second has a pink light, like sunset. Sorry if the colours are out; I think my monitor isn't showing them normally.

It's why I'm not doing environments

Well, Jack kept asking me to tart up a doodle of his crush, the Western Fantasy Civilian, so that's what I did today.
He named her and everything.


This isn't a final design. It's just a fancy concept sketch.
I'm sure you can tell from this picture that I hate doing backgrounds and still haven't got the hang of them.
Some day I'll learn.
But not today.