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Disco Heat Bard Redesign Print

It's no secret that I love League of Legends (LoL). So it would not be a shock that I would also follow other LoL content creators. Disco Heat is one of them. For reasons that require far, far, FAR too much context and stuff I will keep it as simple as I can.

I was tasked to complete a hi-res print of Disco Bard. This character is a redesign of a Bard, a support character from LoL. The redesign is based and themed around the Sylvester Album cover.

Bard from League of Legends LINK 

Sylvester Album Cover

Concept Art

This was the fun part. My idea was to use elements taken from the original; hair, jewelry and specific features and make them fit on Bard's form. 

Final Design

I settled on this final design really quickly. I was very pleased how it got to this point. I got the pose nailed down the concepting, so most of my work was done. I drew over the sketch made the face more dynamic and started painting.

I blocked the base colours in. Colour picking directly from the Sylvester image I realised very quickly that the colours were dull and muddy.  I pulled the saturations levels up and brought more gold, orange, pink and blue into the final piece.

I am really proud of this piece. Digital painting is still a developing skill for me, and though even now looking back on this I can see things I would have done differently It came out really well. Disco Heat was very happy.