Passion project (WIP)
Many years ago, around 2015 I thought of a story I want to tell one of many worlds coming together to fight against an ancient evil and over the years this story grew and changed but its general premise has stayed the same over the years.
However in more recent years (around 2020) I have finally began solidifying the story I want to tell as well as creating concepts and the main framework the whole world of the story. This includes things as story beats, the magic system, the world they live on, and so on.
However even more recently I have begun finally solidifying character concepts into more fleshed out characters. And specifically I have more or less a clear concept of who I want the protagonist to be.
Soren "Tyto" Salazar the protagonist of the story as a whole
The Characterization, and The World
This is Soren "Tyto" Salazar, a character whom I have quite literally have had to learn character design from scratch to properly draw them.
Soren, is an 18 year old average guy, he's rather short and has a heart of gold, he tries his best to be nice to everyone he meets. However that all changes once he falls into a portal into a dimension in between dimensions, a world that has been long forgotten. He learns that his ancestors defended this world, and successfully banished an ancient evil, but at the cost of the multiverse being forgotten. However, despite this, the ancient evil returned and had been regaining power, and Soren decides to take up the mantle and reunite the multiverse.
This is the main characterization of Soren, and the more or less a small summary of the beginning of the world's story.
Soren's Armor/Toolkit
Over the course of the story Soren will have multiple sets of "armor" and one main weapon. While the weapon that he will use has been decided I am still concepting his armor as a whole, as to also accommodate the current magic System I have in place for this world. More or less the gist of Soren's ability is that he has multiple facets and each is shown through a general shift of what his armor looks like, and what type of power he is using. Soren Specifically can show his abilities through Ice, Water, and Steam, while having a more mechanical deposition which is reflected through his armor. His weapon more specifically is a double-sided scythe which can transform back and forth from a basic mechanical pen, however it changes the least in between forms with at most changing colors and a few attack variations.
The Learning process
More recently I have been wanting to at least have a solid base of a character to help me visualize and develop Soren's character, so I ventured to learn some basic anatomy.
I, for the most part, have been using video tutorials, (specifically a youtuber called "Draw like a Sir") to learn the basics of human anatomy and more specifically I have been focusing on doing my best to learn how to replicate facial features.
I have also tried doing the same with body features with some success but I and currently still learning on how to draw a body more properly and with the right proportions.
So after I finally came up with a design, I was happy with in my sketchbook, I brought it over to photoshop where I traced it over with the brush tool, as well as fixing any previous issues that were present in the sketchbook. I then added a body with clothes, I found a few references that I liked online (that Soren would use), and used them to help me draw the clothes that Soren uses in the pictures above.
Reflection on the progress so far
This project has been amazing to work on and I have really enjoyed it throughout the whole process, and yet there's still so much to do, from establishing the world even more, to introducing and drawing out all my other characters I want to make, to even making a clear cut story that I want to tell, and outlining everything that I want to happen. I plan on continuing this project further on into the future, developing it into something I can be proud to show off.
