Concept artist response: Olve Askim

Olve Askim's designs depicts the game perfectly, it shows the traditional vs the modern vs the future. As all three elements are included in the game. I like the characteristic of his clothing concepts, realistic yet stylized. Wearable yet, out of the ordinary. Which brings in the unrealistic fantasy nature of games. His designs also gave the game the sense of freedom on mismatching to create your own fashion style. And it fits the back story of the game rather well, which is that team is no longer separated by nations but by which faction you are chosen to be in. Therefore all elements of fashion come together to express the player's own identity. 

Many in game fashions/costumes were designed to be quirky and fun, (e.g. bunny slippers, bikini sets etc) Therefore i started by getting ideas together by practicing illustrating some outfits similar to that, for parody purposes.

I did this nurse outfit to start practicing my digital illustration skills as well as depicting an outfit on a model. 

I also want to experiment on drawing styles to find a particular painting style i feel comfortable with and hopefully unique as well. 

I think this is a very unrealistic stylization of a female figure, which is much influenced by the average male gaming demographics.  I quite like how it has turned out however i would like to further practice and improve on styling and my fundamental painting skills.