Captain Elaina Sartell Redesign: concept art

The Spelljammer campaign setting is one of my favourite settings with many positive memorys attached from mine and my friends home game.
So when I learnt that the Neverwinter MMO was adapting it I spent the better part of two months making my way through the main game to get to the module and though I haven’t finished the campaign I was incredibly disappointed in how they redesigned one of my favourite characters from the setting, captain Elaina Sartell so I decided that I was going to redesign her myself to prove a point.
This began as a personal summer project but I decided to also use this project as my second term portfolio piece where I would tweek her redesign and create a 3d model of her!

A google slides covering my goals and opinions of her original design and her neverwinter redesign (The google slides also contains my modelling process if that’s something you are interested in)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NC2f_dqIS0E-EYCW48wCX-X1mVzwWhlvoaaYZXi7xn0/edit?usp=sharing

The final design with some changes I made on the 3d model

silhouettes

tones

The final tones I picked

A version in red but I opted for the blue as I thought the red drowned out the rose insignia on the sheath

my original final design I was happy with it for a time, but when I began using it for uni I was told to take another look at my references and the design

I initially attempted to do the redesign like this, but I quickly figured out that it was a poor and confusing way to go about it

My first redraft adding some more detail to her clothing and coat was the main priority

my second redraft where I attempted to make things less symmetrical though I didn’t do the best job at it only making minor tweeks initially

I also drew the backs of the outfits, most important for the coat details

I reduced both designs back to their silhouette to better figure out what to change without getting caught up in the minute details

I tweaked and changed parts of the design notably the hair

i created a lined version of the design so I would have a reference for the 3d model (will be in another post)