This is one of the character designs, Ash, who I created for my 4th year honours project titled 'Renegade Hunters - A Fistful of Bounty's'.
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My project focuses on designing character/creature designs that present character/personality and successfully conveying them through illustration that employs the theme of a fantasy world containing elements from both the ‘Western’ and ‘Fantasy’ genres. It consists of 3-character designs, 1 creature and 1 dynamic scene illustration incorporating the characters and creature
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World and Premise:
The world the characters inhabit is an earth like world featuring lawlessness, corruption, untamed wilderness and violence. Skilled bounty hunters are employed to track down and apprehend or eliminate lawless characters. The project concentrates on two bounty hunters and a fugitive and a wild creature under his control. The ‘Renegade Hunters’ are named Ash and Eve, a brother and sister duo who have taken on an assignment to track down the fugitive ‘Grizzly’ Bill Cooper. They have travelled to the Twisted Forest region to find and capture the crazed trapper outlaw, Cooper. ‘Grizzly’ Bill has a bear like creature, Charger, and both are on the loose and causing havoc.
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Character Description:
Ash is a tough and fiery bounty hunter. In contrast to his sister, he is headstrong with a temper, ever since he was a kid he frequently got into scrapes and learned to fight up close and dirty when he could. Within him he has the elemental ability of fire with which he charges his firearm, blade and gauntlets. This gives him powerful ranged and melee damage.