Step into the spotlight with this month’s Character Design Challenge! Your mission: take the provided reference and craft an original character design that showcases your creativity and skill. Whether you choose to reimagine, transform, or expand upon the reference, the possibilities are endless! Challenge Details: - 📝 Objective: Use the provided reference to inspire a unique and captivating character design. Let your imagination run wild and create something truly memorable. - ⏲ Deadline: Post your submission in the Challenges category by the 15th of the month. Include a brief description of your design process and how you drew inspiration from the reference. - Show your design process from Start to Finish, Winners will be chosen on a project, not a single image 🎁 Prizes: - 😎 Shout Out: Standout designs will be highlighted in the ArtistHub community and across our social media channels, giving you the recognition you deserve. - 🎥 Loom Video Feedback: Winners will receive personalized feedback via a Loom video, offering valuable insights and tips to elevate your work. - 🤑 Exclusive Content: Get a Discount Code for Up and Coming Classes (150$ Off) Let your creativity soar, and may the best design win! 🎉🎊🥳

Here is my Final design for this challenge. I took reference from the helmet. I had fun creating this Design. Here is two variations since I didn't know which one to pick, and the second one was an add on further after I finished the first one and wanted to go further with it.

Hey everyone! Thanks for sticking around and still upload your WiP and engaging with the community! For a Quick Update: Currently alot of life stuff has been switching around and was burning out through streaming and loosing steam on doing this, thankfully that engery is back and i want to keep this community up and running Whats next? - Going forward, im going to look to bring more people in in the next coming of months and keep the challenges going - Next I plan to open the table for more rewards for those who have particapted - Lastly, im going to extend the challenge instead of bi-weekly we are doing monthly so it give people opprotunity not to rush the challenge and for those joining in new can hop in without rush aswell (Next challenge starts Feb 15th) looking forward to a bright future with Artisthub and thank you for those who have joined me along thew way :D

Finished my design for this challenge! There are some things I wish I could change but I won’t have much time to work on it before the deadline. Overall I’m pretty happy with this! For my process, I started by writing down what the references made me think of. I kept thinking of the Covenant aliens from the Halo games, so I wanted to create a design based on them. Since gargoyles stand guard over where they are, I wanted it to be a more bulky and defensive design, like something you’d need to fight to venture into a new area. Once I found a silhouette and general design I liked, I finished the lineart and began blocking in values with cel shading. I used gradient maps to get the general colors down and then added some final touches. If I had more time, I’d have made a variant where it looks abandoned and overgrown, making use of the flower reference photo, but I can always revisit that once the semester’s over. Hope you all like it!

Tiny bit late with this one, but here's my final design. I enjoyed doing this. Even though I didn't have much time finishing the last parts.