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I have a final project coming up for my digital clothed figure drawing class. I am supposed to make a concept for a character from one of three themes. The themes were Romans, Pirates or Steampunk. I'll give you one guess at the theme I jumped for. First part of the assignment was to make four costume sketches and four possible portraits for three specific characters. One character is a hero, then a sidekick and of course, a villain.If you have any strong opinions on which costume and portraits fit with the characters as I have described them, please do share!
STORY:
"Airship Pirates"
Going with the Steamunk (and Pirate as well) theme, I came up with the idea of an airship, the Isabella, in an alternative world history where Napoleon won a great victory at Waterloo. The Isabella is Captained by a fierce piratess and markswoman, Sylvanna d'Avion. Sylvanna has instituted an all female crew policy, including her trusted mechanic, Rivette Lefevre, possibly her only true friend. Rivette is either extremely serious or extremely jolly, I haven't decided. She'd be the best candidate as a "straight man" against the Captain's extreme personality. Either way, she likes her drink. Rivette is not an original member of the crew, she took the place of the ship's inventor, Bernard Fournier.
Bernard Fournier was then romantically involved with Sylvanna and designed and built the Isabella for her. They were simply adventurers, traveling to far distant lands in search of artifacts for the Musée du Louvre, garnering fame and fortune. In an unfortunate accident, though, they accidentally brought about the collapse of the Egyptian Temple of Set. Bernard was believed to have died in the collapse, but in fact survived due to the occult magics untapped in an amulet(or staff) he had found. The amulet(or staff) was sentient and promised him survival and power in exchange for his own flesh. His hand/arm has been burned down to bone, and he his continually fed upon. But he lived to escape his would be tomb and has been granted certain vampiric powers. But driven mad by corrupting power and pain, he swears revenge upon Sylvanna and the rest of the crew of the Isabella. He joins the corrupt Napolleonic Empire, creating for them airships that they use to police the world as the first world power. And as a hero of the empire, he is not questioned when he declares the crew of the Isabella enemies of the state. Now fugitives and running from the Grande Armée de l'Air, Sylvanna and her crew join the Seventh Coalition. They ambush Empire ships for food and supplies for the poor French peoples. Sylvanna is no white knight, however. Cold and ruthless, she enjoys the brutal killing a bit too much. She is just as bitter with Bernard as he is with her, believing she did no wrong and has been betrayed. They have clashed once so far, neither side truly winning. Bernard's ship was unable to take down the Isabella, the first airship more sophisticated now due to Rivette's improvements. Bernard was able to strike out with an emblazoned foil and put out Sylvanna's dominant shooting eye.
And that's it, the setting for a story needing maybe a whole new fourth character as a protagonist. But that aside, I'm posting because I'd like some opinions. If you have any strong opinions on which costume and portraits fit with the characters as I have described them, please do share!
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Comments: 8
The top right-hand Inventor looks *just* like the Medic from Team Fortress 2. Any coincidence? ;D
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I think he looks more like Gary from www.ma3comic.com but either way, totally coincidence.
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Wow. After that impressive response, I feel lame for not having much to say. I love your characters, and am wierdly attracted to the inventor. I love how your mechanic's name is Rivette. That is genius.
Interestingly enough, MY mechanic's name is Ratchet. Go figure, huh?
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Adorable! I love how they go together.
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nice! all of it's looking really good so far, and you've got an interesting storyline.
okay, an attempt at opinions:
bernard: i like the 2nd or 4th costume. the 3rd one makes him look too outright villan, sn it doesn't sound as if it's quite that simple. i like both of the bottom two faces, but i'm thinking your best be may be somewhere in between, not quite as snooty as the one on the right (unless you want him to look like he's always been an arrogant bastard), but not quite as fine-featured as the one on the left. does that make sense?
rivette: i like the name, that's really cute. ok, um, this one's a bit harder, it doesn't sound like you have the personality quite as developed yet. again, i think i'm leaning towards the 2nd or 4th outfit, but i like the shirt and hat in the 3rd one. faces: it might just be me, but the faces look rather masculine. that said, i like the feel of the two on the left, but not the bangs and pigtails.
sylvanna: i think i like costume #4 best, but i'm liking the boots on the first two. i could go either way on the hat. the face- there are aspecs of all of them that are good. the lower left and upper right look like the same basic facial structure, with different nice! all of it's looking really good so far, and you've got an interesting storyline.
okay, an attempt at opinions:
bernard: i like the 2nd or 4th costume. the 3rd one makes him look too outright villan, sn it doesn't sound as if it's quite that simple. i like both of the bottom two faces, but i'm thinking your best be may be somewhere in between, not quite as snooty as the one on the right (unless you want him to look like he's always been an arrogant bastard), but not quite as fine-featured as the one on the left. does that make sense?
rivette: i like the name, that's really cute. ok, um, this one's a bit harder, it doesn't sound like you have the personality quite as developed yet. again, i think i'm leaning towards the 2nd or 4th outfit, but i like the shirt and hat in the 3rd one. faces: it might just be me, but the faces look rather masculine. that said, i like the feel of the two on the left, but not the bangs and pigtails.
sylvanna: i think i like costume #4 best, but i'm liking the boots on the first two. i could go either way on the hat. the face- there are aspecs of all of them that are good. the lower left and upper right look like the same basic facial structure with different expressions. i like that facial structure, and the eyepatch is good. the one on the upper left is interesting also, but the hair and hat are kind of throwing me off, so it's hard to tell.
i hope that helps! (and wasn't too insanley long)
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Re: Bernard: I agree with you, I didn't want to make him too moe or good looking ...or too Monsieur Arrogance either.
Re: Rivette: I WISH I knew more about her... I can't quite decide, but I am liking the outfit of #3 despite any shape changes I make in the overall character design. I thought if making her more masculine since she is the mechanic and prob really big and strong. Maybe a gentle giant sort of character? But that seems so done, so femming her up a bit might be better.
Re: Sylvanna: I put the boots on outfit #4 and I loved it, thank you! [link]
Thanks for your comments! Whether I agree or not, it helps me decide what I like more.
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ack, computer ineptness.
i copy/pasted my response because i figured the page had timed out. i guess it hadn't. the one at the bottom is what i meant to post.
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