Caed Calthye (Stargazer's Gate)

This is Caedhwl Calthye, the main character of Stargazer's Gate. He was looking a bit too Luke Skywalker in his last rendition but now I'm thinking he looks a bit Dave Strider... can't win!

So I've been poking Caed's design for a while and I think this is what I've settled on. It's subtle, but there's motifs throughout all of Stargazer's Gate's concept art, so you can pick out character associations just by their design. A non-spoilerific example is Caed's gray shirt. Every single character born on Damera wears something gray, with a star pattern of varying complexity in their design. Caed's fairly low down on the social ladder, so his is just gray with spots. There are other planets and each one has a visual theme that works its way into native's costume designs, regardless of what other motifs the character's taken on.

This is what I'm aiming for the final comic style... painted backgrounds with colored lineart and a more painted shading. Depending on how long it takes me to render a page like this, though, I might have to drop either the colored lineart or just go with flat shading. I'm aiming for a crisper look than Between Places, as well as a style that'll more easily let me render things like space ships which might possibly be featured in this story.

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Stay tuned!