Character Design Class: Adventurer

My co-worker at Gameloft, Rick Lacy , holds a character design course once a semester over at Bergen Street Comics (which is a fantastic comic book shop, for any New Yorkers out there)

I hadn't put myself in a classroom for a long time (I graduated in 2003 ... ohmygod) and Rick is a great artist and teacher, so I was really looking forward to see what came out of the class and working alongside other artists. I'm very happy with the results! The class ran for 8 weeks and I'll put a few of the assignments I really enjoyed in the next few days.

This was our second assignment. Started out as a pretty average design for a female adventurer. As I got farther into it, a story started to develop, she had a Aztec heritage that was visible through her clothes and instead of a weapon I gave her a slight disability with her knee, so her "cane" was more of a traditional Aztec weapon. Its always fun to take a tired concept and try to do something new with it