Concept Work

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Mercenary Archer

I found a job freelance on conceptart.org for a fantasy game after emailing the person how posted it he asked me to draw a female archer described as

"mercenary- female humanoid that wears ranger like cloth stuff. Carries a single crossbow, moves fairly quickly, fairly agile, and shoots crossbow bolts very quickly. Maybe a hood in her clothing design"

This is my final design

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Earlier design phase

Always have a few ideas before settling on a couple. I chose these two as examples for what they could look like, It helped that the description he gave me gave me a lot to work with.

1 Assassin style 

for the assassin, I tried to get a kind of ethereal look, traditional an elven look to the hooded cape adding in spiral patents stitched in to the coat. expensive looking as if she is good at what she dose, and get allot of money for it. quite clean and virtuous, the light blonde hair adds to this, but with a dramatic stance and a fierce snarl shows that she is still a cold blooded killer when it comes to defending herself and what she believes in.  

as I wasn't sure that the character was a hero or a Villon, so I tried to kind both of them sort of ambiguous, but I did bass this one on two Iconic game heroes. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) and Link (Zelda) also a bit Robin Hood. 

2 Bandit style

Thinking of "Ranger like" characters I thought of a person that lived in the wilderness, who has a gritty bloody life salvaging armor weapons and food from contracted kills. A



 woman who's very existence means that she survived by fighting every day of her life. an over ripped skirt which may have been a beautiful layered dress once, has now been reduced to tatters, metaphor for lose of innocence. 

Taking hints of design from Bethesda as in the bandits from Fallout3 and Skyrim  

After conferring with the client we agreed on the assassin suited his character more and after a a few suggestions and alterations she had brown coat and a neckerchief mask   

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Flesh Minion

Took a little inspiration from from Munch's Scream and the blind monster from Pam's Labyrinth. a creepy troll like creature.