staying off of bird app on desktop, but also felt like dropping some art off to start posting here more frequently-ish, so here's the most recent of what i call "art drops" for what i call [redacted game] at the moment. it's a fighting game i've concepted out and have been sitting on for a while but won't be making for a hot minute because haha i am not equipped to make a fighting game.
this is Michela Siciano. whenever I get around to reposting some of the other [redacted game] sketches i made you'll probably meet her teacher, Lan Hua. most of the characters in [redacted game] fight with weapons, but Michela is one of two that are completely barehanded. unlike the other barehanded fighter, she uses ice magic to supplement that.
Lan, who left her home country of Siya to settle in the country of Altegorio, wound up in Michela's village Barte when Michela was a child, teaching the young folk of the village how to fight and use weapons to defend themselves against monsters and wild animals. After a particular incident that unlocked Michela's magic accidentally, Lan took it upon herself to teach Michela more personally, and eventually Michela left the village to become a full-fledged monster hunter to help communities in need.
Michela's generally a pleasant, disciplined young lady that likes to laugh. She can be a bit blunt when she talks but generally means well. Her clothes are a gift from Lan, who functionally treats her like family, and takes Lan's teachings incredibly seriously--any opportunity she has to prove herself to Lan is critically important to her.
From a design perspective, I mostly was aiming to use blues to help establish her connection with ice, with yellow trim to help break things up. it's kind of a parallel to Lan, who (in her current outfit) wears pink and green w/silver trim.
things i'd redesign in a take 2, and probably will at some point:
- hair (I have been very deliberately trying to get out of just straight hair textures for a while--there are other Black characters in this game aside from her, and thinking on it now I'm pretty sure that braids would fit just as well for the aesthetic I want. I just had this hairstyle started already for the bust portrait & would've had to rework more of the drawing than I had time for.)
- clothes (I like what she has here, but a bit more of an Altegori flair here and there to nod to how she appreciates Lan's gifts but also makes things more her own.)
i thought about making a whole new page for this but...eh. not gonna bother with that. yet.