Concept Designs & Illustrations

Personal Project!

I don’t really have a title for this personal project yet, but it’s for my own game I eventually plan to make one day! It’s basically like Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley, a light-hearted life-sim RPG, set in a peaceful and low-fantasy world. These pieces are just a few concepts that I’ve made for my project:

Characters

The protagonist(s) of the game, aka, the player's character

So here I laid out a few silhouettes (I sifted through the many I had, putting together the 8 I felt were one of the better looking ones, out of the massive dubious pile I had just created) and presented it to groups of people (mostly using game-based discord servers). I ran a poll and let the 60+ voters vote on what silhouettes they felt fit the “farmer protagonist in a fantasy setting” the most, as well as which ones they personally liked. With the 2 silhouettes (male and female) decided, I ran another poll (80+) for deciding the colour schemes. I was interested to see what appealed to other gamers, non-gamers, whether they played games that were of similar genres to casual RPGs or the total opposite! 

The bottom section is for the characters below:

A few of the notable characters that inhabit the world alongside our main character

Some stuff that pertains to these characters

Environment

For my environment, I wanted a stylized piece (no characters) with a cozy vibe! But... this was the biggest challenge for me. I couldn't achieve what I really wanted, and will admit that I should have used 3D to help me with the overall composition and perspective, no excuses. My weakness definitely lies in environment art, but I had to really push past my comfort zone and use the notes and resources I’ve picked up to try and make this illustration. I definitely need to study a lot more fundamentals as well as putting them into practice. But I think I did get a bit more comfortable with new methods, such as using grayscale to colour, and gradient maps (fight on!!)

Very tiny amount of native fauna and flora. I also ran polls to decide the colours for the little mouse-like creature, I originally had plans for it to have brown and pale yellow fur, but the teal and cream won by a landslide!

An illustration piece of my 'Florist'. I wanted to again, try and get out of my comfort zone (except I still very much love big clouds, so that couldn't go), this time by attempting not to do the same lighting set up and atmosphere I usually do. 

School Work!

These are a few assignments I did while studying, I don’t have many that I like enough to share, since most of the artwork I did during my time there was mostly the worst of my growing pains. I learned a lot (A WHOLE LOT) during my time studying, and it was an awkward time all around for my artwork since I was trying to apply and practice what I had just learned every day, while still being so new to it all. (I still have trouble with this, yet I don't feel like I could ever get tired of learning and wanting to improve. Creating and illustrating are my biggest passions!)

Creature design assignment, tons of fun with this one, despite the fact I had trouble with it because my visual library is super limited

This assignment was part of a bigger one, where we had to design an entire airship that was functional. Our design brief had us do at least 2 human characters, plus one mechanical character, with specific roles in mind.

UI icons assignment: where we weren't allowed to deviate from the basic silhouette too much, when they 'evolve' / level up

Card illustration assignment

And last but not least, my final illustration assignment before I graduated. It was the original concept of my current personal project, as I'm sure you've noticed! This was a month-long project in school, lots of blood, sweat and tears went into making this. I really wanted this to be an illustration that I could pour everything into and be super self indulgent with...big clouds, bright blue sky, and happy summer vibes!!  

That's everything, thank you so much for taking a peek at my work, I really appreciate your time!