[Riot Creative Contest 2017] - Infernal Kalista [FINISHED]

Mego

Hello,

This is my first polycount contest and I love Riot so what better time to join!! I'm going to be doing Infernal Kalista for mine, here are some mood boards I whipped up just now to prepare.

All things Kalista:



And next some Infernal refs:

Mego

Here's some quick sketches of some designs for the skin, i'm leaning towards the last one, might play around with different hairstyles. 

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Going with 3rd design from above image, but figuring out hair. Color isn't final though! 

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Andddd here are her colors, really liking how this is looking so far. 

Mego

Just a couple small fixes before I start painting concept sheet, didn't like the angle of her spears before and fixed colors for portrait!! I'll be doing the works with her concept sheet before I dive into the illustration just for fun and all. 

Mego

Alright got her concept sheet made up!! Just need to render a bit, might post progress shots when coloring the front view.

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Portrait rendered for concept sheet !!

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Finished rendering, need to update rest of sheet to match some small changes but will be moving onto illustration tomorrow  

Mego

anddddd here is the updated concept sheet, i'll have some thumbnails up soon. 

Mego

Here are some thumbnails, just rough to get an idea of pose/perspective...I think im leaning towards 2.

Thoughts/advice is appreciated!

Keiraya

I like 1 & 2, but leaning toward 2 also, it has a good reading with the eye that keeps it coming back to Kalista without her taking up the entire space - while 3 makes me look at a lot of not Kalista and 1 I feel she's taking up too much of the space and it feels very crowded actually.

Mego

Keiraya said:

I like 1 & 2, but leaning toward 2 also, it has a good reading with the eye that keeps it coming back to Kalista without her taking up the entire space - while 3 makes me look at a lot of not Kalista and 1 I feel she's taking up too much of the space and it feels very crowded actually.

Thanks for the feedback!  I definitely agree with you about 1 + 3, I could tweak them but honestly I really like the movement going on in 2 so I think I'll stick with it. 

Mego

First pass, thinking of making the arm closest to us a bit bigger for perspective, the leg closest seems a bit off to me too? Maybe I need to lift it up more. 

Keiraya

I agree with the arm change, if you can pull her hand forward a bit more toward the viewer and bring her arm in just a touch I think it'd work, and I understand about the leg, just something seems not quite right but I can't pin point it. But overall it looks awesome.

Mego

Keiraya said:

I agree with the arm change, if you can pull her hand forward a bit more toward the viewer and bring her arm in just a touch I think it'd work, and I understand about the leg, just something seems not quite right but I can't pin point it. But overall it looks awesome.

thank you! Yeah I'm definitely fixing the arm, going to mess around with some changes to her legs and see what sticks 

Mego

Couple more changes to her body, still not completely satisfied but it is looking better. I'll start working on background for now and come back to it. 

Mego

Last update for tonight!! Will start putting color in tomorrow, it's still quite messy but made some good progress today. 

Mego

some  tweaks and a bit of color !! I like the idea of her spear being like hot metal...

Cavins

Love it so far!!  I think the issue with the legs is that they're curved instead of straight.  Good luck!!.  

Mego

Cavins said:

Love it so far!!  I think the issue with the legs is that they're curved instead of straight.  Good luck!!.  

hmmm true I probably curved them a little too much!! I'll see if i can make some changes to that, thanks !

Mego

Whole lot of work left to do, but thought id show some progress before I crack down on getting this done today!

Mego

Last update before I post final version!! 

Mego

And here is this final illustration. Good luck everyone 8)!!

Innocent_Prime

Good luck Mego!

Mego

Innocent_Prime said:

Good luck Mego!

Thank you!!