DESIGN A CHARACTER CONTEST - Season 9 - Style Challenge

Hey fellow Steemians and artists!

The Deadline for this season of the #designacharacter contest
was Thursday 5th of april and we had a lot of great entries.

It took me some time to work through all your wonderful entries and to choose my personal Top 3.
It really was great too see how much work and creativity you guys put in your posts!

Thank you!

This season of the Contest, the Style Challenge, has started on Thursday the 22nd of March 7pm UTC and did run for 2 weeks. Here is the link to the original Contest post.

The Styles to choose from were:

1. Comic artist Mike Mignola

Mignola is known for creating the "Mignola-verse" for Dark Horse Comics, a collection of titles including Hellboy, B.P.R.D. and various spinoffs (Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder, etc.).
He has also created similarly themed titles for Dark Horse including Baltimore, The Amazing Screw-On Head and Joe Golem, Occult Detective.

For reference check out his Art

You can use color in your design but try to create an image that works well in black & white too.

2. Illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi

American fantasy artist, motion picture producer and children's book creator/author.
In the gaming industry, he is best known for his work in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering and on the Planescape product line for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
DiTerlizzi created The Spiderwick Chronicles series with Holly Black, and was an executive producer on the 2008 film adaptation of the series.

For reference check out his Art

And last but not least, a famous painter from the city where i was born...

3. Painter Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body,and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

For reference check out Google Pictures

So without further ado, I present you the

Top 3 of the
Design A Character Contest - Season 9
Style Challenge

_{In no particular Order!}

Design a Character Contest - Season 9 - Mike Mignola Style - Dark Gamer 2
by Hive account@nazirullsafry

DESIGN A CHARACTER - Season 9 - entry Tony DiTerlizzi Styley with Timelapse.
by Hive account@niko3d

Design a Character contest entry #2(correct) - season 9 / The Queen of Death
by Hive account@omdesign

Now it´s up to you to vote for the winner!!

Voting rules
To vote for the winner placements of this weeks contest you have to manually type the name of your favorite artist in the comment-section of this post.
Voting ends on Friday, 13th of April 2018 at 10AM UTC.
Upvotes on the entry-posts are highly appreciated but will have no affect on the contest-voting.
_{To help prevent bot voting, votes from inactive accounts will not be counted.}

You are not in the Top 3?

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Dont be sad, if u did not made it into the top 3 this season.
Another Challenge is coming soon!

Honorable mentions

There were soo many great entries, the decision really was hard.
Here are some great entries from great artists, which nearly made it into the Top3 of this season.
Go check out their blogs and show 'em some love :D

DESIGN A CHARACTER - Season 9 - Style challenge - Gustav Klimt style - "The lovers" by Hive account@kleonella
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