League of Legends|COP3

League of Legends is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game developed and published by Riot Games and first released in 2009. It's a very competitive game, where players use champions to battle each others (player versus player). Moreover, Riot Games organizes the League of Legends Championship Series, where 8 teams from different parts of the world compete for a grand prize.

On my search for concept art I've encountered many great artists, like Katie de Sousa (whom I followed for years on Deviantart) and Trevor Claxton to just name few. I've decided to look at overall qualities of champion (character) concept and splash art instead of focusing on the invidual artists and their styles.

Splash art (illustrations) for LoL has always been a very high quality, beautifully rendered and dynamic. Riot Games title stands out with it's colorful, charismatic characters, and their energy is perfectly transferred in splash art.

As for concept art,again there are some similarities. Pose is rather stiff, but show whole figure and costume, no lineart in finished piece, yet it's nicely rendered. Another thing worth pointing out is back view, which gives a bit more information about the costume/armour. As usual, concept art comes in handy when drawing more complex illustrations.