Octz - 2D Character concept art

Character 1 - RUSTY KING

I've tried to create a little serie of characters who living in the same world (Dark fantasy research mainly inspired by the game Dark Souls., especially the first character). 

The main idea was to represent a strong old tired king who lived in a constant apocalyptic war kingdom and where he is the last rampart for saving it. I wanted to represent the fact that he drew his strenght from a sinister force which in return consumed him, hence this dark matter and his arm less.

At first i wanted to draw it with a long spear, it was more graphic but i was thinking that it would not represent is strenght enough so i decided to give him a sort of executioner's sword.

Character 2 -  DE CANDELA

The second character of the lore is the granddaughter of the old king

The goal was to represent that with the haircut and the same little symbol on her clothes (the same as the old king cape), she have a custom helmet that represent her "royalty"  relationship, also she was born blind due to the power of her grandfather who affected her at birth (little vein and white eyes) but on the other hand has an increased perception of everything around her. (Daredevil inspiration here).

I wanted to  represent a sort of sharp and demonic armor in contrast with her white hair and also to make forget to the ennemies that she's a woman. It's a way for her to inspired fear when she's fighting.(yes like Batman)

For the shield i wanted patterns who can represent her relationship with her perception despite being blind so I thought of  he connection to space (moon/sun patterns), nature (leaf/floral pattern) and nocturnal (the owl/moon pattern)

Character 3 - SILENCE MASQUÉ

The third character is about to create the origin of this sinister source. The main idea was the sentence "make a pact with the devil" and i wanted to show that with all the "souls" of king/queen who made a pact with him across the ages (around him on the drawing).

At first i wanted him to wear a mask but it was too "ninja/infiltration" for me so instead I preferred that he hide half of his face with a skull as a symbol for "the one who consumes". I kept the idea of ​​the mask/infiltration for the next character.

Character 4 - CILE, OF THE NEEDLE

The last character of this serie, as i've said previously it's the idea of mask/infiltration so i tried to draw clothes where she can hide her head and her face.

I didn't want to draw an asiastic face at first because obviously it's cliché for infiltration ninja stuff etc but i liked her face so. . but in return I tried to design clothes with a western aspect to counterbalance (except the n°3).

For her sword i tried to represent the infiltration/hidden philosophy with a secret knife into the main one.  The principal sword is for defense/parade and the little knife for kill, the knife is small because she can easily hide it in her hands or her clothes.

With hindsight I should have worked the main weapon better (too much executioner's sword), i will practice swords variety  more.

Character 5 - CATALYST

A priestess inspired by ancient egypt, i've recently played to assassin's creed origins so i wanted to  draw egyptian stuff. I tried to mix classic ancient egypt clothes/object  and some sci-fi inspiration with the scepter and clothes (n°2 & 3) who could be adapted for ancient egypt.

The goal is to practice colors harmony/complementary with this one.