splendidcyan: Alright, gonna slowly start to upload classwork from this last semester of illustratio
splendidcyan: Alright, gonna slowly start to upload classwork from this last semester of illustration uni cause I’m honestly really happy with a lot of the work I got done! First up is our last project, a redesign of a character in “our style”. I did Lio Fotia from Promare, one of my favorite movies ever. We were allowed to change some bits of tone and such, but overall the character still needed to fit in their original story, just as if we had directed it instead of the original creators. I pulled from queer and anarchy activist fashion as well as general protest gear for his outfits. You can see lots of iterations and some armor designs that I ended up not using on the WIP page. (If you haven’t seen Promare, you can see his original design near the middle of the left side of the canvas.)One of the questions my teacher asked us as we worked on this was, “do they need X feature to fill that role?” I still show him using his fire powers in the final design, but my teacher suggested that instead of fire powers he could just use a molotov cocktail. Kinda just shows the tone of the project. I really liked him creating armor for himself like he does in Promare, but struggled sooo hard with the designs of it that I ended up mostly scrapping it for the final. He ended up mostly just a scrappy little firebender, still a wanted fugitive for his organizational efforts. It was super fun to take a movie I adore and design it as if it were totally mine! -- source link
#lio fotia#promare