HahaYES! By the way, the concept is approved and okay for the contest. I made sure to ask in the QnAs- since Paul is a Rioter the concept is a-okay to use!
I'm doing Neon Strike Vi so I'm so stoked to see how this turns out!
Sweet! Yah I've been checking out your thread too Lazar. Looking great!
I'm not eligible to win the contest anyways due to contractual Riot stuff, but I really want to do Pk's concepting justice with a Jayce design. Doesn't get better than Neon Strike!
If you are having a bit of trouble coming up with ideas, may I suggest referencing the fashions of the 80's TMNT, as well as Biker Mice from mars, and Bucky o Hare to get that 80's bright cyber punk vibe.
Ok so after starting Jayce, I realized I was itching to do a female character. I wasn't quite ready to post her yet but since I got the bump I might as well!
So here is my new skin design... Project: Leblanc
Still pretty rough on the armor design. I'm playing around with some ideas, and I've gotten some feedback from the OMNOM crew and my buddy "Owl" as far as making her have that signature Leblanc look. So I have some things to run with in the next couple days, then I'll post her again.
Great update dude! I think its looking great. I know the staff is early blockout, but I would just look a little bit at the flow of your details and make sure they flow in and out of each other nicely. Right now, it feels a little squiggly. And maybe beef up the connection points on like the handle to the staff and the staff to the head of the staff. Those points feel a little weak. But like I said, I know its just an early blockout, so likely you're already aware.
I really like the new direction for her waist gear. I was checking out her other skins, and I'm kinda wishing she had less hair and more collar to fit her character more, But that's not to say that I don't like what you have.
This is looking really cool. As expected from someone familiar with making league characters everything has a nice chunkiness to it that will read well from a distance.
I do agree with Skyerzz though, as much as I like her hair as it is now, if there is anyway you can push the collar more that will only help with her feeling like leblanc. Same with adding a cape maybe, could be that jacket is a trench coat that extends down and flows behind her like a cape.
Owl - Great points about the staff. It's feeling week at some points. Yes its just a blockout, but that stuff is why I posted it
Skyerzz, Turret, D_Wall - Thank you guys for the feedback on the collar and hair. I left the hair real rough for now because I wasnt completely sold on it either. For some reference, this is the image I found that I ended up loving for her hair. I'll play around with some new styles and do a version with a bigger collar too.
Neer I see what you're talking about now. that hair style would fit perfectly in with her (might recommend alpha cards over solid geo for that one?)
It's just the hair style doesn't maintain the shape that leblanc has around her head; she always has some long center piece on the top of her head. Be it her original, her magician skin, or her new ravenborn skin. Maybe you could imitate that shape with more hair, or extend her visor into some sort of helmet? Your call.
If you allow me to say (I'm from the illustration category, but I had to drop a comment in your character), it's looking AWESOME! I really like the way you kept the design solid in every part of the costume. I would suggest you to put something on her tiara to resembles to that golden thing (like the feather on Ravenborn skin), and use different values in parts of the clothing, so it wont be all midtone.
Hey dude! Its looking sweet. I like what you did with the hair, although I wouldn't mind seeing it a bit more radical or punkish. But I'm digging the orange strand of hair on the one side.
The staff is feeling a lot better now too. I will be interested to see what you do with it. Its feeling pretty sweet! Keep at it. Looking forward to seeing MORE!
Got my bake finished today and I'm starting to block out the colors. Most of this was done with gradient maps ontop of the combined bakes. Not sure If I'll have the time to finish by the deadline but going to try!
Its looking great dude! I like the way the color palette is turning out! Looking Pretty sweet! I still wonder if it would be cool to have some tattoos peaking out from under her sleeve. Could be cool! Keep going!
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haha.. looking forward to progress! lunch crunch go!!!
I'm doing Neon Strike Vi so I'm so stoked to see how this turns out!
I'm not eligible to win the contest anyways due to contractual Riot stuff, but I really want to do Pk's concepting justice with a Jayce design. Doesn't get better than Neon Strike!
I'm not totally sure about the jacket idea, but I think it might look pretty sweet once I flesh it out, and give him some badass power gloves.
So here is my new skin design... Project: Leblanc
Still pretty rough on the armor design. I'm playing around with some ideas, and I've gotten some feedback from the OMNOM crew and my buddy "Owl" as far as making her have that signature Leblanc look. So I have some things to run with in the next couple days, then I'll post her again.
Great work! Keep going!
I do agree with Skyerzz though, as much as I like her hair as it is now, if there is anyway you can push the collar more that will only help with her feeling like leblanc. Same with adding a cape maybe, could be that jacket is a trench coat that extends down and flows behind her like a cape.
I do admit the hair isn't really reading as Leblanc to me though? I don't know if that's something you'd want to change?
Owl - Great points about the staff. It's feeling week at some points. Yes its just a blockout, but that stuff is why I posted it
Skyerzz, Turret, D_Wall - Thank you guys for the feedback on the collar and hair. I left the hair real rough for now because I wasnt completely sold on it either. For some reference, this is the image I found that I ended up loving for her hair. I'll play around with some new styles and do a version with a bigger collar too.
It's just the hair style doesn't maintain the shape that leblanc has around her head; she always has some long center piece on the top of her head. Be it her original, her magician skin, or her new ravenborn skin. Maybe you could imitate that shape with more hair, or extend her visor into some sort of helmet? Your call.
I like the direction so far though!
Other than that it's looking good! GOGOGOGOGOGOGO!
Good work here, keep it up and good luck!
The staff is feeling a lot better now too. I will be interested to see what you do with it. Its feeling pretty sweet! Keep at it. Looking forward to seeing MORE!
Anyone know how best to host an image on imgur without all the compression and loss of quality?
for Imgur, go to your settings and tick 'upload images in high quality'. That fixed the problem for me.