Character Concept for Professional Practice University
For 3rd year Concept art We were given a assignment called Professional Practice where we could choose any topic, genre and style to create a product up to industry standard. I decided to design a character for League of Legends due to their wide variety of character concepts and beautiful art work. In preparation I first looked at the areas in runeterra, I was choosing between Freljord and Ionia. My goal was to create a Mage with a familiar or a pet so thinking about the two regions i wanted to choose from I went with Ionia as Freljord already has a lot of humans with animal side kicks: nunu and willump, sejuani and Bristle. So i went with Ionia, Ionia is heavily inspired by asian culture something I have studied and drawn a lot of during my time at University. When creating my champion I took notice that Ionia's wear a lot of Red/ Burgundy, floaty clothing and big shoulder pieces. I took note of all these design choices in my concept art.
Character concept art inspired by Ionia. Long flowy fabric indicates she is a mage and from Ionia, thick ropes are used a lot in character designs from Ionia also.
Prop designs
Riva concept art page
The chow chow is an ancient Chinese breed which I wanted to use as my Mages familiar however, after receiving feed back from my teachers I was informed he was to boring and needed to more exciting.
New designs for Chow Chow, I kept the over all build of a chow chow however, I did research into Mythical Asian dogs and drew inspiration from the Bul-gae.
Thumbnail designs for the characters. I wanted to make a quite scene of them chilling in the rain and enjoying each others company.
I comprised my progress from this project into one picture.
The final piece is here 💕. I am so happy with how RIva and Remus turned out.