Estrella
A 3rd year pre-production project I did for my illustration diploma. Developing the main magical design took quite awhile, and I didn't manage to do 2 key scenes or scene illustrations in the time frame of the course - so I might work on illustrating some of Estrella's moments in the future! Huge thanks to my lecturers with the feedback and helping me refine the main magical girl design!
Modelling the prop in Blender took awhile, but the pay off was huge as I was able to pose this straight onto the finished magical girl artwork! I look forward to turning more complicated designs from 2D into 3D.
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Magical Girl design. I implemented a star shape into her overall silhouette, as well as in the smaller details of her outfit. This design is very inspired by the Star Guardian costumes from League of Legends.
Idol Design. I feel like I had more free reign over the design of this outfit because I wanted it to be more toned down compared to her extravagant magical girl version. Parts of it is inspired by KDA outfits.
Weapon/Prop design. I took inspiration from the spinning circles around star globes and added ribbon details for that slight coquette aesthetic.
Creature design. I took a lot of inspiration from Kyubey from Madoka Magica, as well as the little legends designs from Teamfight Tactics.
Some sketches to flesh out more of Estrella as a character. I feel that these every-day drawings make her feel more realistic as a character (in my mind).