The Beast - The Cursed Queen
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Q’maera – The Cursed Queen
In a time when the land was divided by war, a king was desperate and was looking for solutions to unite the people. All hopes in the gods were lost so the king departed on a journey to the dark places of the world. Eventually he found the devil and asked him for help. The devil agreed, however, for a great price.
He promised a powerful magic for the king, so he would be able to control his kingdom. But in return the devil demanded his wife, the queen.
The king returned home but he was uncertain regarding the devils bargain. He loved his wife and she was a very good queen.
The queen refused when
she knew about it. Forced by his people, the king had no other chance than to
overpower his wife. Then he brought the defenseless queen to the gates of hell.
The king received the spell after he handed his wife over to the devil. Ever
since the king was very powerful and ruled for many years over the land.
The devil brought the exiled Queen into his chambers deep inside hell and
locked her up.
After a while the queen lost her soul and transformed into a denizen of hell.
A beast!
She adopted three
traits from the animals, that lived there. A snake, so she could sneak past the
devil. A goat, so she could jump up the cliffs of hell. And a lion, so she
could tear the heavy gates of hell.
The queen escaped from hell but she was changed forever. Driven by revenge she
broke into the Kingdom of her treacherous husband and fought her way through
until the throne room.
After killing all the guards, she finally poked a spear into the king and
pushed him down his throne.
In this moment her soul returned to her. She then collapsed and was overwhelmed
with sorrow for her dead husband.
Since then she was her true self again and the queen was called Q’maera, the cursed.
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It's been a great time participating this competition. Many thanks for the support and motivating me to go on. Polycount is a great community for expressing yourself and learning something new. Thanks to all, you folks are awesome!
Good luck to all the participants. There are some amazing art comming and I`m very looking forward to see all the finals.
Cheers.
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Huh , forgot the Image...
Good point NITECON. I knew this is gonna come up. The reason for this is, it`s easier to work with kind of relaxed leg position. I still need to find a cool pose for her, so this is gonna be fixed later. I also planned a tail for her. It should represent the snake, like the chimera have it.
More updates soon.
Blocking out...
Adding cards...
First wip preview...
...still need to add more cards and asymmetry.
You may notice, there are a bit less hair details on the side and the bottom because of the collar which is hidden for now.
Any feedback appreciated,
Cheers
@ Intervain: Regarding the skull structure, I agree. I actually in the first version I had the cheek bones less wide. But her face was strange looking, in combination with the massive horns. I think I have to experiment a bit more. Good point on that.
Here the comparison of the older version:
in the comparison, the wider version reminded me on this fella
Meanwhile blocking the stage. Something like this, what do you think?
Cheers
I kinda agree with others about the cheeks bones. You can try and place the horns a bit higher to visually elongate the head.
Good luck!
p.s. I take it that she is not a "shy" lady, the way she is sitting...?
I will rethink the pose. According to the story she fell back after killing the king (dead body in water) and was full of sorrow. Shed some tears maybe. Whatever...
Some wips of the fur. Not sure about the colors, placeholder textures still.
Great work, Fantasymaster
Her face in update 10 and 11 looks amazing!
Sadly, won't be able to build the throne and all the stuff around in the given time frame. So I decided to keep it simple. Here are some new ideas (blockout geometry)
The point of no return!
Next update lowpoly with normals.