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Here is my character design for my art trade with :iconmendics:. The challenge is to make a character for the other person with the description giving by him. Mine is suppose to be a Tribe’s hunts man who also uses alchemy… yea I know it doesn’t look like it much but still XD.
I didn’t spend too much time in my painting and overall quality because I was more focus on the character design and my PS is giving me a few problems with my brushes. That said I think It came out somewhat ok both in quality and character design.

Notes:
I choose reddish like hair to represent the volcano that is near he’s village.

The tattoos in he’s face and arm are symbols giving by his tribe when he became the hunts man as well as the nose piercing.

The earnings and cape are supposed to be giving to him from the outsider who he picked up he’s passion for alchemy and the symbol on it represents the guild to which the outsider leads (or at least in my mind it is =P ).

The scars he has are from past hunts

The staff is a special gift from both he’s clan and the alchemist, the gold earrings and crystal ball are from the alchemist and the wood made for the staff along with the tablet readings are from the tribe.

Hope you like it mendics and can’t wait to see you’re design (which will probably be like waaay better than this XD ).
Oh and also yes I know the feet are very horrible but I can’t help it it just didn’t want to come out right D=.
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I believe you did the character pretty well with what i gave. Everything is not without consideration.

I don't think i can say anything concrete with the clothes or the look of the character since I don't know anything about alchemy or tribesman close to a volcano to give you any insights on the design. But what i can do is give you first initial ideas that popped into my mind when i saw the char design and the profile.

"he looks like a shaman" not a bad thing since alchemy is just as mysterious as shamanism is to ordinary people. but the whole huntsman and alchemy side is to showcase, science and tradition merging. He looks a little bit too wise to know something about hunting. Nice details on the scars though, that does show the warrior side.

I would have made the weapon more hybrid with being a huntsman and an alchemist, somewhere between having a spear, coated with alchemical stuff or a simply a staff with a blade attached. Having him have a staff makes it look like he's a pure alchemist. Some additional equipments like small pots or knives can also have specified him as an alchemist.

Everything else is fine, except that i would have wanted to see how the volcano environment would have changed the look to his appearance. That's the reason why i included that detail. 2 Questions boggle me with my detail such as: "how will their body adapt to this environment and how will it look like?" "What Clothing would have they worn to be a little more comfortable with the heat and still be able to hunt efficiently, and also have an alchemy as a hobby?"

Ahaha better not skip on practicing foot as it becomes fun to draw when you start to get it. Now i'm getting excited doing my part, I know i haven't said anything much to the development of your character but it will come. I'm sorry it's taking time.

On another note, as exciting and interesting as what we've done, It's actually quite hard to start off designing characters from other peoples' idea. So this is what it feels like, I'm guessing to what character designers do. I think i'm just not used to it, but i want to do more. Designing your character feels really different from designing someone else's character.