Early pose sketches to try and get a feel for the character's personality and mood.
Went with #5 so initially tried to develop out some loose ideas for the character from the silhouette.
From the notes/board I took some attempts to get the right dark elf tone and other
Wasn't totally happy with the first pose after straightening out some early miscommunication. So I did some more pose sketches.
Early sketches for costume ideas. There was talk of nobility and also a magic user so I knew the initial look was too roguish for that.
Settling on the look more here, "no capes!"
Finalizing the costume based on feedback and trying to convey the sorcerer aspects.
Flat color sketches for costume.
Reference board with provided and additional ideas.
This is a project I did for a 3d artist friend as they started their own assignment so we teamed up to develop one of her characters for it. She had a lot of great direction from the get go so I didn't get to explore much in the way of designs for things like her hair as I would have liked but I think we found a lot of great solutions along the way!
