Created in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CC
Design exploration and update of an original character. As a child, Alex makes a bargain with the Old Gods of her world, thinking to force them through an ancient spell to give her their magic. To punish her for daring to try and command them, the Old Gods take her eye and arm, but in reward for her daring, they give her in replacement one of their own, so that she will be their eyes and hands in the mortal world.
Design exploration and update of an original character. As a child, Alex makes a bargain with the Old Gods of her world, thinking to force them through an ancient spell to give her their magic. To punish her for daring to try and command them, the Old Gods take her eye and arm, but in reward for her daring, they give her in replacement one of their own, so that she will be their eyes and hands in the mortal world.
Alex's story is set in a northern tundra environment, so I wanted to incorporate fur into her design. I went with the second design because I also wanted her arms and legs to be unencumbered. She is a normal sized human female, so she would need to be relatively quick and focus more on avoiding being hit, given that most enemies she encounters would outweigh her. I also imagined that her demon magic would probably give her a certain amount of resistance to the cold, so she would not need to wear quite so many layers.
I explored different variations of the facial design, incorporating different "demon" eyes into each. Alex would have her hair tied back most of the time, so all of her iterations have a form of up-done hairstyle.
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Over the course of the story, the more Alex uses the Old God's powers, the more they begin to consume her. The demonic taint spreads across her body, growing swifter over time, and Alex finds that she begins to unwittingly use the magic, often triggered by emotion, furthering her increasingly rapid transformation. |