Life Here
My senior thesis and passion project. The exploration of a fictional culture, its people, and the deity they all coexist alongside. It can be viewed in its entirety below, while some aspects have been isolated and placed on-site for further explanation. If it cannot be viewed in its embedded form, please click here to be redirected to where it is hosted online.
Preliminary beast design thumbnails
Clothing Exploration
Exploring some of the clothing of these people, and the various ways certain individuals choose to accessorize themselves. They live in a mountainous region, so their dress extends the gamut of temperate-cold. Everyone is unique in their expression.
Preliminary Environment Exploration
Exploring where these people live, and what some of their homes might look like both inside and out.
Character Exploration
Early on exploration of the individual who would live in this home; the ceramicist.
I had a few key notes in mind while thumbnailing this individual. I wanted them to: be elderly, and show it, be primarily femme-leaning, and to have a cyst above their left eye. The cyst serves no real importance, but was simply a design choice I was interested in, as it would give the ceramicist's left eye a notable 'droopy' look.
Deity Hair and Tassel Culture
Below are two page excerpts from my in-progress worldbuilding book for this culture, which can be viewed here, or at the top of the page. Worldbuilding, to me, is a mix of explanatory illustrations as well as narrative writing, and therefore I showcase both here.
Character Exploration
This is a work-in-progress design of a character with the tusks of a boar. After settling on their visage, I moved on to their clothing. This character is a fighter, though I have not yet settled on their fighting style. Therefore, I am exploring different options for their clothing that may suit different fighting styles.
Color and pattern exploration for my firbolg character
Japanese Street Food Stand
Creating a Japanese street food stand design from the ground-up starting with research, which can be viewed here.
I wanted the sign to be both inviting and eye-catching, and explored with different movements: