Design a game of thrones / fantasy-esque character [QUICK FEEDBACK]

Games & Recreational

We are a defi node service that serves to make it's investors passive income through the use of stable coin yield baring non fungible tokens The audience are cryptocurrency power users, and gamers. Usually technically savvy. Audience will most likely be 95% or more adults, approximately 70/30 mix of male to female (70% male). While the audience is adult, we do not want any nudity, or overly revealing/sexual designs for either the male or female character. Some revealing attire as is appropriate to the theme is ok.

We are seeking a 2d illustrated character in a game of thrones/fantasy-esque style for our Alpha pre-release version of node project we are developing Whilst we are looking for ONE character concept for this contest we will eventually want a set of 3 characters, one knight, one mage and one ogre/demon character design, all designed in similar style to each other, so this is something to take into consideration The character should have it's own color palette that makes it distinctive (as an example, a mage could work using hints of green colours, or a demon/ogre character could have hints of red), this will allow us to work with the winning designer to develop the other two characters again with their own distinctive color palette. The character needs to be able to work on a neutral background but we'd love to see the character sit in it's own unique background to build up the lore. Background therefore need to sit on a separate layer to the character The character should fit within a 1:1 ratio "bounding box" but should have enough background padding to be able to tweak the crop of the overall designs. Feel free to play around with body proportions to make the character feel unique and interesting. A full height design showing the entire character is expected, and it should be in a somewhat compelling or dynamic pose. We are purposely leaving it fairly open ended in terms of what character you want to imagine with this, as i mentioned above it would be useful to keep within the realms of a knight, OR a mage OR an ogre/demon type character but outside of this use your imagination. We have provided some examples of character references we think look interesting, but you by no means have to deliver something in this style of illustration, they are more just character references A cartoon style, not attempting to be too "realistic" would be preferred. But not too "goofy", still able to be taken seriously. Would be nice if the characters where on the darker side. Nothing in the realms of super hero. Should feel a bit gritty. Generally we are seeking a visually distinct style. More realistic styles will also be considered, we are fairly open. We've added some style references here and you can see that they are all very different :) *Rough concept sketches are encouraged so we can provide feedback as soon as possible!*

Here is some character reference material that we would like the character to be inspired on. Please note that these character references should provide a bit of inspiration for character development, this by no means I want to limit submissions to this specific style of illustration. All sorts of styles are welcome to reimagine characters designs like those attached as examples

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Illustration or graphics starts at $349.