Course final project: cross-over art pt.1

Probably should have updated earlier about this, but for our course's final task/project I chose to do a cross-over art piece. My own definition for a cross-over means imagining what person/object/thing X would look/be like if it was in universe/story Y instead of their own. It's a fun little thought exercise that puts the creative muscles to the test when trying to boil down the defining elements of each universe. It makes possible practically an endless amount of scenarios for fan fictions, fan art, et cetera.

So cross-overs could be like "what would happen if the Simpsons were in the Harry Potter universe" (placing the characters in a new universe and imagining how they would behave) or maybe like "what would Marge Simpson look like if she was a wizard in the Harry Potter universe" (imagining how to merge the two visual styles).

For my work, I will try to merge the visual styles of two games by taking a character from Battleborn and putting him into Sea of Thieves, and trying to make it look plausible. The idea came from a friend who earlier this year did this cross-over with her favorite character and it came out great. I meant to do my own and jotted down the basic idea, so now's a good chance to finish what I started.

I used to play a lot of Sea of Thieves when it came out in March 2018 and I love the stylized world it has. Haven't played the game in months now, so my secret weapon is this hefty opus right here:

The perfect style guide! I will need it to study the ship and weaponry details up close because the character I will be re-imagining in Sea of Thieves' world is a big ol' metal boy, quite fancy and deadly looking robot with more than enough guns under his hood.

(Happy looking chap, ain't he?

Source http://battleborn.wikia.com/wiki/ISIC/Strategy?file=ISIC_render_2.png)

The idea I got was to make him look like a haunted shipwreck with cannons and guns attached. The notes I did earlier this year have the basics down, it's just a matter of chipping down an assload of details, and for that I need to bury my nose into the art book.