Character Concept Arts
The beast Hunter
As a little girl in the north "village of hedgar", She was living along with her father and little brother and since her mother died in the red winter, They had to accompany the father for the hunts, ( he was a great hunter ) so she became familiar with the art of archery since she was 10 years old, In the the hunters legend there was a magnificent creature Known as the "fingash", The creature was the biggest game that could save her family from the debts and starvation due to fathers sickness, so on her 18th birthday she decided to go for the big hunt of "Fingash". after slaying the beast she got cursed by the great witch whom the beast belong to.
Read the story from another point of view over here.
At the beginning of this piece I did a broad research on the Viking and Nord culture and took advantage of some of my favorite games like "Elder Scrolls Skyrim" and also the tv Serie " Vikings " as Inspiration for both the design and the story. Her overall design is a mixture of Vikings and the archer / hunter ascetics with a long wooden bow representing the lively hood of the character to be inline with story, at first I wanted to give her some elven look but later on I decided to represent her as human.
I had to overall challenges during this work which were:
1- My first experience of drawing a character in a dark environment ( without any light effect impact ) just have more focus on the subject matter and I gained a lot of experiences from this which I used in my later works.
2- I didn't want the characters pose to be rigged and boring so I tried multiple outcomes until I reached a good dynamic pose.
