The Fall Of Antheia

My planing process

A scene where Antheia (antagonist) transformed into an Asudria, a legendary beast. Vulcan (protagonist), who was too weak to defeat her, uses a broken piece of Orrium that he found and threw it into the beast's mouth. The power of Angelite (goddess of peace) in the crystal destroyed the dark power of Xamethyst (god of chaos) that were consuming Antheia.

I start by writing down what's happening in the scene and highlight some key words. Later, I search for reference and sketched out some composition thumbnails.⠀

As you can see, the beast was a dragon. But we change the dragon into a giant hyena looking beast in the middle of the project because it suits the story a lot better and not too generic. Without any wings, the composition that I developed earlier will be too empty. So I decided to develop just one new composition sketch due to deadline.

The old compositions where horizontal to show its giant wings and make Vulcan feel surrounded. But the new composition became vertical because I want to show the new beast jumping high towards Vulcan, ready to kill him. It has some negative space for me to show its silhouette and the focus point was clear. 

For the color thumbnails, I went with 1 as the dangerous mood is stronger.

Process view

Final outcome