Deadzone Key Art WIP

 We don't need to have designed environments for this upcoming formative/ meeting, but we do need to have started on the key illustrations, which will need backgrounds, so I've put together a moodboard to help with that:

Here's my initial thumbnails for one of the key illustrations, I copy and pasted and slightly edited a lot of sketches I've already done for these guys, the mercenary's body/pose was drawn from scratch:

 

 

This guy only has one eye, so I thought it would be cool to draw the moment right before he lost it.

 

I knew I wanted to have the gun right in his eye, the laser charge reflecting in his pupil the mercenary having narrowly dodged an attack and retaliating at clsoe range. Actually excecuting this though was a bit trickier than I initially expected.

 

After trying to do some kind of poses myself, I arrived at this, but the mercenary's pose felt a bit cramped.

 

I managed to make the mercenary's pose a little more dynamic:

Here's a close up so you can see the vision: