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[Faulty Apprentice] Traveling Merchant design

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Waaah I made it in time O u O"
Gosh it was so much fun and also stress working on this design but I'm happy how it came out!
This is my contest entry for dinmoney s contest to design a traveling merchant character which could be able 
to be part of his game!
I really hope you guys like how the character looks like! I will explain some details about her and also
my thoughts while designing her in the following.



So this elvish woman is a traveling merchant with a passion for money and leather. While trading around in different towns to achieve 
the best price possible for her goods, she takes the risk of traveling to each town by foot without any protection. But who would have thought that
a merchant lady could be so tough and skilled in defending herself? She uses her appearence as a fully packed, defenseless merchant to lure naive little 
thiefs into thinking she could be an easy target. But as they get aware of how she really is, they already got hit down to the ground being robbed by her, leaving her some nice opportunity for a good meal in the next town.

Even though she is a strong woman with the skill to defend herself really well,
she gets really sloppy doing so leaving scars on her body and even losing her left thumb in battle.
But that's fine with her, since she doesn't really care about how pretty she could look or how more girly she could be, as long there is more 
of the precious money. Every man who would dare to approach her would just get a sarcastic smile giving them the feeling of being worth nothing more than a night in the next tavern. But that's not worth her time, after having a succesful day trading her goods like potions, rare plants or crafting material she enjoys staying at a bar rewarding herself with whatever she feels like could be worth her effort.



When I started designing her, I wanted to go for a sassy, unapproachable, badass woman 
who could lift more than this berserk over there. She should atleast be able to realistically carry such a big backpack by still being able to defend herself.
I made her outfit really revealing but still covered with protection to get a nice mix of the fantasy theme but in the sexy direction. To make as much money as possible she tries to carry around as much goods as possible so she puts the items into her belts, adds more little bags onto her outfit and so one. 
She also has everything she needs to spend some nights while going to one town to another with a warm blanket in her backpack and some pots and cutlery to enjoy a nice meal over a campfire. She stores big boxes of items in her backpack, which are mainly deliveries she has to take from one trader to another, but smaller items like potions are clearly revealed to spark interest in potential buyers or naive thiefs.
She loves money and expensive, sparkly stuff.

She always wears different jewellery because she sells it pretty soon, but she enjoys every moment of wearing it.
Also I really liked this idea of putting some of the money she makes into her bra-part of the 'armor', because some woman do put their money in their bra sometimes and I kinda wanted to exaggerate this idea onto the character design!
I wanted to give her a really nice earthy colorpalette with the maincolors being darkbrown and silver. Faulty Apprentice doesn't really have a character with this kind of pallete so I thought she would fit in quite good with the others!




Phew, I really hope I didn't forget anything! Wish me look guys! <3
And also don't forget to check out the game Faulty Apprentice on Steam!
The contest is hosted by dinmoney over here: Traveling Merchant Design Contest! 24 HOURS left!!
Thank you so much for the opportunity man >u<)b

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Konradius5's avatar
Fantastic design! A character just like this belongs in a story, and this sort of design would suit the personality perfectly!