sky

i've named my first character sky hahah its a bit cheesy but i chose it because i think the name entails freedom and (supercheesy) you have to look up to the sky!

anyway her design is simple enough to explain, i wanted a high power difficult to obtain armour that monster hunter fans would recognize and be able to associate with a strong hunter but also the kirin armour that i've chose is very famous within the games fan art images and such so i reckon it denotes a bit of that monster hunter celebrity -ness that i mentioned in the fan fiction back story post previously. visual designs where an odd process because instead of generating thumbnails and silhouettes to design like i'd previously learnt to do from the design book 'skillful huntsman' i already started with something existing.

in that sense it was a bit like working with someone's character for an art trade or commission, i took what was already existing and made it my own by using my style (obviously) informed by years of anime and manga comics as well as with this i changed the costume and made the character wearing it more my own too, or at least tried to. sky wears my version of kirin armour which is more fitting, featuring tight leg-wear and a little jacket, i wanted her to look a bit more cool and laid back, hence the lazy eyes and pipe, her design is informed by her personality design which is in turn informed by a bit of elitist gamer research and creative writing (look to the next post!)