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Stalker

This is the first sketch of my Plague Stalker unit. I thought of this pose just to show off what this character can do and to show how creepy it is acting as if you have just spotted it and it has spotted you. The eyes in the back are an abstraction of how it uses its vision and hones in on a target.

This was a "failed" iteration of the Stalker Key art -  after meeting with Dave and Matt they said that having the focal piece of the image trying to be hidden was a good idea but difficult to execute I did have the idea to put a secondary character in the background in the same way they did but i ended up choosing my first sketch and they seemed to gravitate toward that one as well. With a little direction from Sam to exaggerate the pose I came out with the video below. I also to the scythe hand from this iteration and transplanted it onto the new piece.






As you can see the pose changed slightly throughout the video most notably the position of the head - it now overlaps the eye in the back and now acts as the new iris and pupil, its gaze is inescapable.

Scytale

This is the sketch of the Scytale I took forward. I had initially planned to have multiple Asterian characters in a wide scene however after completing the Stalker key art I thought it was better to create a specific character focused piece, this lead to the idea of having him walking down from a pile of bodies but I was too lazy for that, leading to the sketch you see here, I feel like this made for a more personal and brutal image which represents this character well.





This was an interesting piece to render, the lighting was challenging but a fun obstacle to overcome I feel like this one came out fairly well. 
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