This guy is a gunner, but he doesn't have his weapon with him in the image. This is impossible. So I guess I need to decide on a gun.... probably will go with a light bowgun of some sort.
This time it's a look at how I was developed the scene and background elements. Actually this just looks more like generic middle-ages fantasy rather than Monster Hunter in particular, but oh well.
I didn't use any of these, but you'll get to see what I ended up doing soon enough :)
This arose from a terrible pun someone made about "Alt Eisen" from SRW and "Reisen" from Touhou. Wasn't terribly high-effort, and looks ok for it, although it took FOREVER anyway.
This is also the first lineart I've done in PaintTool SAI - usually I can't be bothered with picking up new software, but Photoshop's lineart was bugging me for a long time, and SAI is pretty awesome (and uses shortcuts which are almost identical to Photoshop).
Now this is one of the things I love about Monster Hunter... it's a game where this kind of situation wouldn't be unusual in the least. There's just something awesome about a game with such a serious tone having this kind of humor in it too.
I definitely can't forget to represent this aspect of MH in my composition.