Mycelia - The Mushroom Merchant

Mycelia, a.k.a Cecilia-May Blackwood, has never found much interest in her wealthy family's affairs. She would much rather spend all day fungi-foraging in the woods wearing the fancy blouse she patched up herself.

Truly unconventinal in comparison to her family's lifestyle, Mycelia has taken on the adventure of selling and trading her mushrooms for trinkets and treats with anyone she meets whilst out in the woods. Mycelia keeps her mushroom trading escapades a secret from her mother. Knowing that her family wouldn’t approve of her "unladylike" hobby, she sneaks out whenever she can, slipping away from her family’s watchful eyes to pursue her forest adventures.

Despite her best efforts to keep it under wraps, there’s always the looming question - what if her parents find out?
For now, though, she continues her double life, balancing the elegance of her family’s world with the thrill of her secret forest explorations, where she’s free to be just Mycelia.

This is my final university project at Staffordshire University! From concept to finish, I created a merchant character using the brief provided to me by Flix Interactive. I chose to use Arcane for the handpainted art style inspo. 52k tris and game ready!
I really enjoyed coming up with a narrative to better communicate my design choices and help make the character more endearing! As well as creating my own character design for this project.