Promo Art

As I was running out of time, I decided to use one of the antagonist's poses from the posed character sheet, and a similar pose for my protagonist to one of his poses in his sheet. Overall I like that the look is a little cartoony, it combines DotA 2 and Bob Rafei's styles decently, with the subject matter as well as the cartoony elements. I feel that I could have experimented more with proportions and styles to create a finished look that reflected all three styles. 

I originally wanted to have the protagonist lifting up the earth or rocks to form a shield against the beam, however, after doing the posed sheets, I settled for the shield. My inspiration would have been taken from the Earthbenders in Avatar, perhaps some scenes in Naruto, and a scene from Full Metal Alchemist during the episode Miracle at Rush Valley, for which I cannot find screenshots for.

Below is my idea for the background, however it was just not looking good or flowing, in my opinion.

Here I deliberated between the two, either having a simple beam or the more exaggerated one, and after asking a friend he suggested the latter. I think it adds more to it, but I am not completely sold on the style. With more time I would refine the beam and the shield, as I was having quite a bit of difficulty getting them right along with the perspective. I tried to gather some reference images but they were not helping too much, so I guessed to the best of my ability.

I also decided on this background as I wanted some terrain so it didn't look so flat or odd. The sky came about because originally I wanted to do water but no matter what I tried it just did not look right at that angle, so I painted a flat colour, which was a green/blue colour, almost teal, and then painted over with a yellow using a brush that was perhaps for cloud effects. I really liked this however I felt that there was just too much colour with the bright orange and purple, so I decided to darken it, and that really brought out the highlights for the antagonist, but I still feel the design, and therefore shading, on the protagonist is lacking a bit.

Antagonist Sheets

Below are the antagonist's line art model sheet, painted model sheet, visual interest design sheet and posed character sheet.

I had some difficulty with this character, drawing him from the different angles but trying to keep the lines correct to the best of my ability. This was very time-consuming as I made a fair few mistakes before settling on the final drawings. Also I deliberated as to whether his torso should close or not, but I realised that perhaps they would not fit properly on his chest the way I had drawn them, as they were too big, so I decided, due to time constraints as well, to keep him open.  The solid back was to make him seem more solid, if he was open both front and back, there would not be much substance to him, in my opinion. Even though it may look a little strange, it works for now. If I had more time I could experiment with more fragments or other ideas to make it flow better.

When I was designing these poses I had something like Cyclops from X-Men or Iron Man's chest piece in mind. I also was thinking about, what I am sure is another character, either from a game or comic book, who shoots from his chest, but I cannot think who.

So here the antagonist is throwing a flame spear, and producing a solar beam from his chest. I didn't want to recycle the fireball that I had before as I thought it was perhaps a bit boring and not dynamic enough for the pose sheet, so I chose the flaming spear, as it was more interesting.

Protagonist Sheets

Below are the line art model sheet, painted model sheet, visual interest design sheet and posed character sheet.

Think I will go for the above image as the final design.

Below is the Posed Character sheet. I chose these two poses as I feel that the character could be somewhat of a protective, defensive character, but still have some offensive abilities. I also wanted to keep a calm demeanor about him to embody serenity and confidence in himself.