#chatacter concept

First iteration:

This was more of a horror approach as my genre was supernatural horror. The original story we worked from used fabric to describe her (velvet fur, Pearl eyes), so I took that literally for a bad taxidermy type of look.

Art Style Test (and more iteration):

My group decided Mizpah shouldn't look like an enemy so she's the only design I did that didn't have horror elements to it. I used a porcelain figure as reference so the gold detail would show a sad expression rather than her literally frowning.

Final shape iteration:

Using Islamic wedding dresses for reference I came up with these. A lot of the design works through proportion; big eyes and a big head make her look younger, so I shrank the head and went for mediumish sized eyes to make her slightly more mature looking. The older look is so she's not too cartoonish.

Colour iteration:

The fairytale is called the White Cat of Ecija so the fur had to be white, but the veil was also white to show purity. Then gold was used to show her wealth, she's the daughter of a mayor. Then blue is an accent colour to represent her sadness of being parted from her lover and stuck in the curse.