YEALA GRIMES
Character concept for a ballerina turned world famous cyborg-popstar. The first image is the design I finished mocking up in January 2024. Unsatisfied with the final look I revisited it in Fall 2024 to iron out some details as seen in the second and third images.
For her cyborg parts I decided to lean into a doll look to relate it back to her history as a ballet dancer, rather than a very generic cyberpunk/Tron look. I used images of ball-jointed dolls and porcelain pottery for the painted details.
Her overall design is heavily inspired by 80s aesthetics, and the singers Prince and Janelle Monae in order to create a look that is both regal and rockstar.
The Tathir
These characters are designs for an original species of genetically engineered shapeshifting human/insect/animal hybrids from an original story of mine. Created for the purpose of fighting in a war, all of them are former or active soldiers. The ones who aren't lead relatively normal lives as average citizens.
They fall into categories of five sub-species (Spiders, Beetles, Scorpions, Locusts, and Bees) all of which played a specific role in the war effort.
The first round of designs for an independent project I'm working on at university. I completed a lineup of notan thumbnails of civilians to help populate the world of the story (Ballad of Astaroth), and then settled on putting my focus into creating a pirate crew. I plan to revisit creating concepts for the general civilian population.
