The idea of the video game was already a year old in fact, and as such there was some already some work done. We decided to go with a female lead and I made a rough sketch of what she might look like. I then refined the sketch. From there I decided to try a more sci-fi approach to the design and made an alternative costume. I also played with different hairstyles, but I found it surprisingly difficult to design, since there are so many possibilities. Because of that, I couldn’t decide and consider the hair to be just a placeholder ready to be replaced at any time. I had a similar problem with eyes, which are in the same situation.

Initial concept

Refined

Sci-fi alternative

In the end there was a need to make a decision to move the work forward, and so at least for now I made a combination of the designes with bits of new stuff and simplified it overall. I then used it as a base for actual game sprites.