[Riot Creative Contest 2017] Jayce God of Thunder skin

GonzaVega

Finished Piece:



Final design:




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Hello!  I'm joining the riot contest for illustration, and I'm choosing to do a "Jayce God of Thunder" skin idea wich is heavily inspired by an obvious marvel superhero.

 I want it to have a resemblence of Thor but in a way that would actually fit the character and the artstyle of Riot so I'm debating between these designs for the armor and the weapon.

I would love to know wich design you guys prefer. Any advice or opinion about other thing that crosses your heads would be really appreciated too.

EternalLamb

I like 3 and 4 the best, they use enough elements from the original to properly call back to it without pulling too much and hammer 1 looks the best to me. I think the cleanliness of the character design for 3 fits Piltover a little better with hammer 1's transformation having more 'magical' elements to bring the theme together.

GonzaVega

EternalLamb said:

I like 3 and 4 the best, they use enough elements from the original to properly call back to it without pulling too much and hammer 1 looks the best to me. I think the cleanliness of the character design for 3 fits Piltover a little better with hammer 1's transformation having more 'magical' elements to bring the theme together.

Thank you! I appreciate the insight on your choosing too.

GonzaVega

Here are the hairstyles I come up with, not to sure about the long hair, maybe that goes to far from the character.

Marie_Miau

I really like number 4 and 6!

razz

I think the elements from Thor are a tad too obvious, so it looks more like Thor with Jayce's hammer than a new look for Jayce. There's already Thunder Lord Ornn, which is way more sweet looking than Thor, if you ask me ;]
Just my two cents, though. Keep in mind I'm no big fan of Thor.

RogersMandee

5-6 are daddy af

DawnHeart

Looks nice! In terms of hairstyle my favorite is number 4! I could imagine 10 too as Jayce doesnt have a beard in other skins either but 4 is defo the best! Keep the work up

MadameDaFunk

I can see you could push the design a little more even bringing from the traditional thor (i m not a fan of the marvel one actually)  but is my taste and probably not your intention. From the current design for the armor i like 3 and 4  , and the hamemers 1 ,3 ,4 (try to merge them togheter to get a new design it could help ) , the hayr style  its an hard choise to me  i feel they some how fit all for thor jayce . Aniway keep up the good work

GonzaVega

RogersMandee said:

5-6 are daddy af

Hahaha I guess they are, hope that's  a good thing

GonzaVega

MadameDaFunk said:

I can see you could push the design a little more even bringing from the traditional thor (i m not a fan of the marvel one actually)  but is my taste and probably not your intention. From the current design for the armor i like 3 and 4  , and the hamemers 1 ,3 ,4 (try to merge them togheter to get a new design it could help ) , the hayr style  its an hard choise to me  i feel they some how fit all for thor jayce . Aniway keep up the good work

I guess I choosed it to be more like the movies one because it seems like that kind of design fits better with the world of league, and yeah I'll have to do some kind of hybrid with the hammer. Thank you for commenting!

Gratshnag

Agreed with razz, design is to similar to Thor design. May be you should more fresh and independent idea. Gud luck to you)

GonzaVega

Ok so I decided to go with this design with the hammer, I'm pretty okay with it.

skullkid99

really great idea, hoping to see more

GonzaVega

Been sick for a while so couldn't get much done, but here I got what the main design would be.
May do some changes but it'll work for reference.

GonzaVega

also tried some stuff with the cape, still don't know what to do about it

DawnHeart

GonzaVega said:

also tried some stuff with the cape, still don't know what to do about it

When looking ar Riots artstyle I'd say take the one with cape (number two with the extra cape on hips) as Rito seems to like stuff like this also considering his movement it rly could look a bit empty if you dont add the cape. I really like it! Looks also super handsome xD

GonzaVega

Made some thumbnails, I think I already know wich one I'll choose but any insight or just something to point out on them would be great!

Gratshnag

C is best for me) F may be nice)

GonzaVega

@Gratshnag Thank you for the input!

RockaFella

A and F are my fav. Good compositions, A looks good as its dramatic, F cos he looks like he's about to kick ass!

GonzaVega

RockaFella said:

A and F are my fav. Good compositions, A looks good as its dramatic, F cos he looks like he's about to kick ass!

Yeah I also like them both, but given that I'm trying to emulate the way actual splash art for the game is, in terms of  composition and poses.. maybe they wouldn't fit so well? dunno, still giving it some tought. Thank you for commenting!

DawnHeart

GonzaVega said:

Made some thumbnails, I think I already know wich one I'll choose but any insight or just something to point out on them would be great!

My fav is C and then maybe A but I think he already has a splash that pretty much looks like A but B would be ok too. Still my fav is C looks so cool & badass

Marie_Miau

F is my favourite, looks badass

BrandonPanda

I personally really like C really dynamic, i would just maybe rotate the hammer a little more and add in some more darks 

Innocent_Prime

F, is more in the mood of recent spashes. Lighting is great. You probably should slightly raise his hammer (the perspective is off for now and you will avoid parallel with the bottom of your image). My favourite.
D with a darker background could be nice.
C, it looks like he is wounded, dodging something or attempting to do the splits. Joke aside, It doesn't match the badassery/chivalry of the other thumbnails.
A, is awesome. Does a god need two hands to rise is hammer?

GonzaVega

BrandonPanda said:

I personally really like C really dynamic, i would just maybe rotate the hammer a little more and add in some more darks 

Rotate the hammer to make it more visible or to make it look less awkward?

GonzaVega

Innocent_Prime said:

F, is more in the mood of recent spashes. Lighting is great. You probably should slightly raise his hammer (the perspective is off for now and you will avoid parallel with the bottom of your image). My favourite.
D with a darker background could be nice.
C, it looks like he is wounded, dodging something or attempting to do the splits. Joke aside, It doesn't match the badassery/chivalry of the other thumbnails.
A, is awesome. Does a god need two hands to rise is hammer?

With F you mean rise the hammer only with one of the hands so it'll be diagonal?
Yeah he's fighting something that's not showing in C and he's being pushed back.
Given that the character of jayce is always grabbing his hammer with both hands I wanted to maintain that in some cases.

GonzaVega

Currently deciding between these two options for the colors

raphoni

awesome art...i love it...could you make it a tad less thorish though

GonzaVega

@raphoni  uff, may be too late for that xD. What are your recommendations for it?

raphoni

GonzaVega said:

@raphoni  uff, may be too late for that xD. What are your recommendations for it?

Not too late,

I cant stress how awesome your art is.

Recommendations?

 lol big guys have a stylised body type ,where the chest is disproportionately large and the head and feet are disproportionately small(kind of like bruno in popeye ).

 I think doing that will get rid of that Thorish look because Thor has human proportions.

 look at  any large lol character and you will see how stylised the proportions are

GonzaVega

Haven't been posting in a while because of some other priorities taking place.
Anyways here's what I've got so long, I started doing line art and base colors, I'll be taking care of lighting next, after that I'll see if I can do a little more for the background.

GonzaVega

Update

GonzaVega

Another update:

GonzaVega

Well so I think it's finished.

Haven't posted much of the process because I thought it'd be boring to see just render, so instead I made a GIF showing the process which is always fun to make.



 
I don't think I'll keep working on it, so thank you all for helping with the creative process of this piece, you've been really helpful and this was a really fun experience!

FirDrawsStuff

As a female, I can say - F A C C he's hot O.O
Amazing work btw, you have a great chance of wining!

GonzaVega

@FirDrawsStuff Hahaha I'm glad you find him attractive, and thank you! I really appreciate it.

hikaririn144

i've never really played jayce but hot damn i want this thing to be legit

GonzaVega

@hikaririn144 Hahaha that's a good sign, thank you!

BeccaBeeArts

My favorite part is the lightning, It looks so good
(also agreed, very attractive man right there)

GonzaVega

@BeccaBeeArts Thank you!