Giving Beast Hunter Leona a shot. Gonna jump right into 3D soon, as I don't care much for concepting. Just wanted to get some of the major shape ideas going and then I'll flesh the rest out as I go and toy around with different colors, smaller design elements like various face tattoo ideas and such. Probably going to add…
Ha, well, the first thing I thought of that sold the idea of Beast Hunter Leona to me was a lion head on the shoulder with the claw draped down to her hand and the idea of it looking like she had a lion paw gauntlet holding a giant sword. I still got some stuff to figure out to get it to work elegantly into the design, but…
Yeah, I'd really play up the Manticore slayer vibe because what JoanSantus said is true, it is a Monster Hunter themed skin line. There is a lion faced monster that already meshes well with your concept, the Teostra. Even better is that the Teostra is basically a Manticore, that you're already referencing. I can't wait to…
A WIP of the mesh. More proportion tweaks to do, I still have a few elements mirrored/instanced that I will tweak. I'm gonna add more silhouette to the mane of the lion head as well. Not doing a sculpt, btw. Also, I thought it would be cool to give her a little ferret-ish pet or two that could be used during recall…