Swain Production Art

First portrait study I did on the project. Imagining Swain as having stern, stark features, raven black hair, a Vegeta-level widow's peak and eyes that pierce into his enemies

Lunch sketch trying to capture the military aspect of Swain, playing with imagery reminiscent of propaganda posters and doubling down on Swain/Noxus's color identity: black & red

My proposed final portrait (before we made the hair grey) plopped onto Justin's design. Justin Albers + Larry Ray were the masterminds behind the sleek coat, I was really jiving with their vision. Check em out!

There were a lot of discussions about age/appeal, we landed somewhere in the middle. I think he could have been cool no matter which directions, though I do miss having an older character in the game

BONUS CONTENT: unused pitch for the Swain teaser image. Inspired by favorite line from Swain's VO: "The shadows of our empire are cast by a raven's wings."

Another unused promo image concept, desperately wish I had captured this graphic quality in the final splash ^^;

Threw my hat in the ring on a Bilgewater Swain sketch. I like how the final ended up but I still wish we could have given him a hat XD