Caitlin McGookin

University Projects

City Port

In this brief, we were asked to design a city port. I was inspired by Tudor architecture and decided to add a fantasy element in the form of large, stone body parts scattered around the city. The story behind it being that before humans settled there, a race of giants walked the land until they were petrified in an apocalyptic event. Their bodies were eventually semi-buried over time and humans simply built around them.

I explored different ways I could incorporate the petrified bodies into the city's design and found the idea of hands sticking out of the ground the most interesting. I especially liked the concept of the city being built in the palm of a hand. I produced two mood paintings of a city scene with the cathedral looming in the background.

Magic: The Gathering

I was tasked with making a couple of illustrative images for a mock M:TG card, the following are my favourite two.

Personal Work

1850

The following work is part of a bigger project I've had for around 12 years now. The basic premise being people with demon ancestry forming an organisation to protect the Earth from demons. For this character design, I took the opportunity to research Victorian fashion from 1950-60 and found it interesting applying fantasy and gothic elements to it. 

SWTOR

The next project is some work based around creating a fan character inspired by Star Wars: The Old Republic. I'm a fan of the franchise so I couldn't help but explore it in a character-based project, but it's entirely light-hearted and for fun.

I'm pretty sure there aren't smartphones in the Star Wars universe but it was definitely a fun characterisation exercise!