Morrowind: Mage Guild

TES III is (not was) a gorgeous game with a lot of visual-stunning elements. It's design inspires me for a 15 years. But there are a huge progress in video games industry, you know. And here is my personal design-education-project. Let's call it "If you have an opportunity to make a design of the every guildmaster from the TES III, what would you draw"? That was also a challenge for me: to save an atmoshpere of the game, but make a design, that would look modern and fresh. I spend thousands of hour in TES games, but anyway I'd start with a reference work. Concept-art from the Morrowind artbook was the main inspiration (I love that sketchy style, yeah). So here is the Mages guild Archmage in all her power and beauty. MG is an Imperial guild, so all design is a mix of the almer style (hello to Skyrim and TES:O) + Morrowind robes + Roman imperial style. Hope you enjoy this work, I am so excited to read your opinion, folks!

Here is the result.

First things first. Sketches with a shapes of the mages/alchemists/wizards of the Mages Guild of Vvardenfell 3E.

Adding some motion. My Archmage must levitate, while draining a soul from the soulgem.

Some improvements in a whole silhouette. Shapes are between altmer style (sharp edges, straight lines) and classic Morrowind concepts with a lot-of-details mages of Telvanni. Magus staff is like a symbol of power.

Sort of searching of the small (but so juicy!) things, which every mage must have.

Face variations, basic lineart. She is an altmer, plus archmage. So she is a little bit selfish, confident and pretentious. I added a lot of details like embroidery, engraving and jewelry to her costume.

Here is the final (ok, almost final) lineart. After that there was a tonn of drawing ;)