In the beginning I found it impossible to properly design a character without knowing the context of it's environment, so I did some sketches of what I felt the environment for both the government and city would look like.
But something was missing, and it was something I've touched lightly on in my previous concepts without even realizing. Culture.
To continue designing the city and it's people as I have been doing is to follow typical cliche and stereotype, which for the basis of this project is what I've tried to avoid.
As my project resides around designing characters for game worlds, the World is something i feel i need to focus on more.
Sometime before I had chosen a location for the concept, which was the sea of Okhotsk, which sometime in the future has dried up around it's shores.
Reasons for this location where-
unconventional location
Out of the way from western civilization
Out of the way from western civilization
Relatively isolated, Civil conflict overlooked/unknown
But most importantly, the two countries Okhotsk sea lays on the borders of; Japan and Russia.
Culturally these countries are massively contrasting, and in my future concepts I want to visually draw more from their cultures, be it one or the other, or both.
The above concept was a brain storm of sorts. I thought of splitting the City citizens into two categories, living and working. Because the city powers itself with fossil fuel mined from the Okhotsk seabed, someone is going to have to mine it. The concept began as general living class with plain clothing and hood in order to remain anonymous, but because of my love for things mechanical, this particular person is an amputee from an injury while mining underground, which, despite it's clunky appearance, is actually stronger than his original leg and in some cases allows him to perform better.
Bleh
