Our first task was to create 20 thumbnails from a concept we were provided with. I chose Clash of Heavens, where a regular person gets drawn into a war with ancient mythology and evil forces. My first thought was to design just a regular girl, but it soon evolved into a girl who had been part of the war for a while; which is why most of them are wearing armour. I also designed some creatures, just for fun.
Later we had to decide on one of the thumbnails, then construct a character from that. I chose this one because I wanted a thumbnail with armour and a lot details, since I find that fun to work with. I picked out 3-4 thumbnails and eventually decided that this one was the one I wanted to go with. Here’s the history part of the character background we had to write: She’s always been just a regular girl; goes to school, goes to a part time job and then home. At least she was, until strange things started to happen to the world and Gods started invading her life. At first she was resistant to this whole business: she did not like violence. After finally finding her place in the group; using tomes to cast spells and keeping the group healthy as a medic, she started to accept her fate. After spending some time in different worlds, battling and exploring, she meanwhile greatly improved her skills in combat and eventually accepted to wear battle-armour. She still preferred to stay behind the group in fights, though.
We also got the assignment to do a turnaround of your character, from three or four angles (depending on if it was symmetrical or not). Mine wasn’t a hundred percent symmetrical, which is why I ended up with four pictures.
Emma Fredriksson 