This was a personal project I took on to try out Even Amundsen's Domestika course, years after buying it, as well as a chance to complete a design of an old character of mine that never got to a complete state.

The course focused on how to develop a character through world-building, and letting it guide you through the creative decisions until you reach your end result. I found it incredibly insightful to learn from an artist who can capture amazing levels of detail through their renders, yet also came from a drawing first background. This was my chance to push my rendering skills beyond what I have done previously and I feel that I've had some success with it! She went through a false start with her design as I learnt about armour, but then forgot to apply the character and setting to the concept. Safe to say my brain is fried after this one.

In the spirit of the Even's course, meet Iona.

A warrior from a mountain clan that utilise a quirk in world's energy. After an asteroid collided with the world, the bond between souls and bodies weakened, allowing for new abilities to be used called Echoes. These projections of the user's soul can be cast out into vessels to create Echoes of the self, and allow for them to be used an aids in tasks and battle. As a warrior, Iona can use her own Echo to help her fight in battle. When a funeral rite goes leads to Iona taking on the souls of the dead, she is given the red sash and cast out of the clan, believed to be cursed. This is then when she must find her own way and learn about her new path.