Nina Bourdon - Concept Art 2023

Nice to meet you all !

This is a collection of a few of the works and projects I did during my second year at Artside campus. I've learned a lot about the different processes for 3d characters, 3d environments and concept art but I've decided here to showcase my 2D work since that's what I love to do !

Hope you enjoy checking it out !

School Works

Landscape

This was a very fun one week project overseen by Florian Devos, at the beginning of the year, where we had to create a landscape with it's focus point being a tent, either in a canyon type setting or a forest one.

Bonus render I did during the week because I had so much fun and really wanted to try to push the forest setting more !

Architecture Design

This was the second part of a two week class on architecture, we had to create designs for specific buildings but each day was a different architectural style and the last day was an inn based off the architectural style of World of Warcraft. 
From all our different propositions our teacher, Florian Devos (for both weeks), chose from all our designs, which ones would work the most and we had the last say on which one we wanted to push forward with and render !

We had to render our chosen design and six props from that design during the following week.

I chose to push my design of an Inn in the World of Warcraft universe !

"Select your character" - Fighter edition

This was our first big project that lasted multiple months during this year, we had to design a fighter from one of the three fighting styles : MMA, English Box and Muay Thaï. We then had to make a bunch of sheets surrounding our character. 

This was a real challenge since it was one of the first times we dwelled into designing characters !

Although I had a lot of fun making it, I can really see how I've improved since then with our first real character design classes later in the year !

Viking warrior

This was our first real week of character design overseen by Leandre Teko, our goal of the week was to design and render a viking character. First we had to create a moodboard with all our inspirations and then sketch out different body types and poses before choosing two of them to create designs on top of them ! 

Eventually the final choice was made by our teacher for which one we'd push to render.

I had a lot trouble for the different body types and posing during this week and realized how much I need to work on it more !

Jolly Roger

Sci-fi Bounty Hunter character design

This was our second week of character design, this time with feedbacks from Félix Donadio !

Our goal was to design a bounty hunter with the theme of Space Opera ! We had a lot of liberty for our character as long as it remained humanoid and had one robotic part, I developed it by adding some information concerning my character and his TV head I was too inspired to leave alone.

My character's name is Jolly Roger, a silent but lunatic bounty hunter that really loves his job, maybe too much. Had a lot lot of fun creating and designing this character during the week and it kept reminding me why I loved drawing so much !

Personal Work

Here are a few personal works I did during the year, although I wish I had done many more I am still quite happy with how they turned out !

Owl Clan

This was a project I started at the beginning of the year, it started as just a sketch to try different body shapes but eventually I pushed forward to try and make them all cohesive together with designs.

Looking back on it there's a lot of mistakes and things I would do better now but I am still proud that I managed to go this far for a personal project at the time.

Ni'Yul Dae

I started this project simply because I was inspired by the 3rd year students at Artside campus and their milestones (also fueled by the goal to be able to post it for the rookies) so I'm glad I finished it !

This is a two / three week project, where I designed two characters : Ma'Yul and Nora and a bit of their world.

I first thought about creating my characters and what type of artistic direction I wanted to try before starting to think about the worldbuilding around them.

That's all from me !
Thank you for spending a bit of your time to check out my work, it means a lot. 

Can't wait to show more from me in the futur :)
Take care !