This is going to be fun! those other forums won’t know what hit them 
I think CGS will be kicking some ass this year I just hope that I can help.
I will start doing some concept thumbs this week
Good luck to everyone and remember no mercy!
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Horse Thumbnail
GL man 
inserting some extra characters to hit the limit of 10, not really a lot more then a well wish that i can add at this stage of the thread.
Hey thank Marlon and Kary! I have had a little time to brainstorm after work today and here is what I have come up with. I dont know how deep in story I will go with this but here are my thoughts so far.
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Hey everyone thanks for all the positive response so far! It really helps to get me moving. I am just doodling up some silhouettes right now and playing with some shapes. Once I have some together I will be posting
Thanks again!
Lets kick some arse!
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Hey everyone,
Just doing some quick brain storming now. Not so much for the character design but finding some interestings shapes so I can have a design style to go by when I start the thumbnails. I also find this to help get the imagination flowing. What I did was fill up a page with some custom brush strokes then copy and flip it and start zooming in on everything looking for something that catches my eye and start painting over it.
I am kind of digging the character on the bottom left so i might copy that out and do a basic concept overlay but nothing set in stone yet. And I think the light armor that will be on my character will be an organic looking metal if that makes any sense.
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Set yourself up for a bit of an interesting case Matt He’s going to be pretty much tied to the stead carrying the artifact, but he won’t have a mount of his own? You might want to keep the costume fairly light if that’s the case. Thats the reason I’m cautious about the one you highlighted; I like the face (not a 20 something male with a full head of brown hair?! crazy!), but his kit looks pretty clunky. Thats assuming that they’re intended to be a pretty mobile crew around the artifact, but if they’re mounting the artifact on an animal (instead of a cart) it sounds like they want to be ready to go at any time on a lot of terrain.
You going for an overarching evil or good theme? Seems like some of the faces in the rough sheet lean to the evil… and thats kind of a cool direction to take a healing character. Jumps out of the stereotype a little, after all the bad guys need to be able to say “T’is but a scratch!” miraculously too
Hey thanks jramauri and Jassar
Hey Kary , some good points here. I am actually planning on having a mount for the character on the horse. I am thinking up around the neck area . It would seem like the only comfortable place. The horse is going to be ripped so if he sat any low on the horse he would probably be doing the splits. I am in the middle of working out a basic design for the chararcter , I agree with what you said about what hes wearing. I am thinking thou it will be a mixture of cloth and light armor. but he will have some packs with him that would probably be some first add and food. He might have a magical healing 2 ton stone but nothing beats a band-aid! 
I am going for a good guy healer with this. Thou he just looks like a butt ugly steal worker in the early 1930’s
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Ya it was more the other material in the sheet that had me thinking evil. The bottom left guy (needs better name pronto) didn’t sit in that same category, more neutral so far, but toss a first aid kit and a few other symbols on him and he’ll be good to go. Steelworker beefyness sort of makes sense for a guy who works with a 2 ton healing stone… and you’ve certainly broken the ‘healing crystal’ stereotype of a middle aged plump woman with this one
Unifying the two characters with the costume design makes sense. Light leather with grieves, and a cuirass would give you something to put the symbols on and fit the flexibility/mobility of a horseman. Looking forward to more =]
Hey again Kary , yeah he needs a new name for sure haha i was trying to think of names and for some reason the guy that owns the car wash across the street from where I work popped in my head haha I will get cracking on the main character very soon and I will make sure the 2 characters here match.
Here is a quick thumbnail drawing I just did to rough out the horse, in a bit i might start adding some of the gear that he will be wearing.
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