After my success in creating thumbnails for Arktias I wanted to create more for other characters and started on Rosamine’s. I first did two quick sketches of how I envisioned her both as a student and as a politician.
Then I tried to plot out the anatomy for her poses.
After figuring out the specifics of the pose I moved into rendering the body.
Once I had completed the body I started on rendering the face, initially starting with a colour block-out.
I rendered different features individually using the same process that I used to create Arktias’ face.
I felt that she didn’t look how I had imagined so I changed her eye shape to make her eyelids much larger, which in turn made her eyes look droopier and her expression more judgemental (fitting for her personality).
I mirrored and altered the eye before moving the pupils to look into that middle distance rather than to the side, then added subtle eyelashes and soft eyebrows. The hair is only a colour block-out right now but my next step will be to try and render it.
Once I was happy with a rendered body and face I started thumbnailing the costumes for student self.
I consulted with my peers to determine the best outfits for her, and decided on my initial two thumbnails as her primary design idea. While I was fond of the far-right designs and my 4th design, I felt that these didn’t fit her character at this point in her story, but will add these as ideas for her Act 3 portrait since they look like clothes a sci-fi Politician might wear. I’m very happy with how her face turned out and I think I managed to avoid falling into the common mistake of ‘same-face syndrome’ between my characters, something I have struggled with before.