The end is in sight!

So here we have it, a month and a half of hard work and hours of correction and changing things but im happy with what i have ended up with.

originally i was going to do a highwayman, but that changed as after researching alot into pirates and pirate law i found it more interesting and over all a better subject, i also decided to change my character to "The Queen" as i feel this character may not be touched upon due to the witch and soldier main focal points during the story.

So here we have my queen, i was fun to work on her the character sheet were (to me) the most enjoyable part; developing the characters attitude and personality really struck home to me just how important concept design is, without it we would have no crazy bosses, big golden shiny armor or any form of interesting and deep characters what so ever, i can already tell the next 3 years will be amazing.

Anyways onto my work! 

Iteration and Development

                                           
 Here you can see i annotated what materials on each "item" i wanted, this changed a couple times during its run but i tried to stick close to what i said in the start as i found this fit closest to the time period.

i then continued to iterate upon my final choice of which character, i started with clothing, clothing being one of the main features that define a remember-able character. As you can i see i mixed and matched some parts of clothing and tweaked to suit accordingly, this sped up the process avoiding drawing different cloths everytime and instead just using what i had at hand. To the left i blew up my final choice of clothing, this is just a rough idea of what i wanted the over all shape to appear like.

(hair and weapon iteration below)      

                                                    Model sheet and Character sheet

 (above) This is just the base figure i worked from during the process of creating my model sheets, i added these as first i was only going to show the above as my finished model sheet, after a group crit i found out it needed to be colored (below), i also added the facial close up to give the modelers a better idea of the facial features rather then just have them on the figure i found when i did that they were too small and not large enough to get any real detail into them, doing it the way i have i found personally to be the most visually effective.

I wanted The Queen to have a "sassy" fiery attitude, doesnt take any BS but can still hold a heart felt conversation. I split my character sheet up into two half's the right being her fighting/angry side and the left being her mellow, calm, casual side.

I feel i got the right amount percentage of different things that portray her well, i specially enjoyed drawing the 3 figures in the middle row on the left side, the mix between confused, her speaking action and her waiting/listening action  i found to be quite entertaining

                                             Environment thumbnails and Final pieces

 Above you can see the development of 4 line work thumbnails from grey scale value to color study, i wanted to show the rapid development into the industrial era with the mix of nature and man made structures hopefully i have shown this in a suitable way.

But here we are, last two final pieces i had alot of fun painting these, i chose to not do 2 of my thumbnails as i didnt want to limit myself just to one area so to speak, for my final pieces i chose a tropical climate, hot sun and clear blue ocean this makes it look still untouched by human hands with the light blonde sands and clear skys.

my environment only pieces i chose to do twice in a sense as for my environment i then took a different angle and put the sun lower in the sky to show that time has past, i feel i could of done away with the line work on the character her self but as i am not yet comfortable with over painting of lines and such i chose to keep them in and not push myself to far before practicing properly to do so.

I now only have my final character pieces to show my full character in a close up shot, this should be done either tomorrow or the next day, but for now i will stick to finishing my essay and then i will one step away from full completion!