🐕🌻 Here’s my entry for this month's challenge for the character design challenge. The porcelain parade conductor is an enchanted doll crafted from fine china and silk by a curious sorcerer toymaker. With a wave of her baton, the conductor can manipulate bodies of water into a marching band of musicians and performers at will, bringing magic and life to the cities of small creatures and critters alike. The conductor’s cheerful leadership and heart of gold have regarded her as a memorable guest throughout every performance in mystical maritime towns. Most of my design ideas for these images and my theme are connected to another art challenge I wanted to try, centered around the theme of "parade." My immediate impression from these photos conveyed a sense of elegance that I wanted to incorporate into clothing items, and I experimented with various styles of hats, skirts, and dresses. I also aimed to explore incorporating different textures, patterns, and shapes into various parts of the outfits. I found it enjoyable to join in on this exercise again to help practice thinking of small ideas and practicing some new art in between being busy with other things. ^ ^

A few ideation sketches for the references this week. My brain sparked super quick with a maybe more fashion-focused design to build on for a sea angel creature humanoid - but I'm excited to see what other designs I can come up with later. - -,, 🐡

Here's my final design for the challenge. I had very little time to work on it but I had so much fun with it!

This is a berserker, a powerhouse warrior capable of cutting down any foe, both in the sky and on the ground. They are a front line force for the alien empire's fleet, driving back the massive monsters that plauge their solar system. Didn't quite manage to finish this one up with colour. But figured it was worth posting the design at least! I took some inspo from Doom slayer for the armour, and wanted the design to feel regal yet imposing. I also love designing aliens, so doodled a portrait of what they look like under the helmet as well!

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.