ok so I can't sleep and I'm not really too happy with how this turned out. But it was.. AN idea.
Thought his E could be streamers that shoot out, his Q could be little pies he throws (I had toontown in mind when I was thinking of this.) and his R could just be an eruption of streamers and your usual circus chaos.
Forgive me and my sleep deprived mind.
Ok so here are some notes in case other artists are curious or if anyone cares:
I did get a bit lazy with the background kinda. I used mainly the air brush and blur tool for the far back, and for the little column Smolder is one I just used 2 colors and the watercolor brush with color stretch maxed.
For the details on smolders actual body the only real change was some soot markings from his flames. I wanted to make him look slightly more worn out and aged.
The ghostly green fire does make him look more paranormal but I actually think it fits the theme a bit if in a hypothetical universe this were to be released near Halloween or something.
I like to think that the sound on his elder passive would have a church bell effect!
Lemme know your thoughts! I'm actually really proud with how this turned out.
I'm still working on the background of Gargoyle Smolder, but I had a few ideas and was wondering if you guys had some ideas of your own!
I may be drawing these btw!
Battle Boss/Arcade Smolder:
Was thinking of a Spyro/Koopa inspired skin, maybe with his q having the same colorful gems Spyro picks up in his little fireballs that are pixelly. The ideas that came to mind for appearance was a more first gen bowser color pallet of mostly green with a yellow underbelly, but I'm open to other ideas. I didn't want to copy Spyro beat for beat, y'know? I also was thinking of feathered wings but that's up for debate.
"Prince" Smolder:
This idea was more inspired by the King Viego skin.
Smolder, aside from his mother, is the last imperial dragon I'm pretty sure. And his mom was alive before the ruination, so maybe with this one he looks more regal and acts more spoiled.
Another idea with this one would to be giving smolder female voice lines and imply that the dragon we are playing is his mother before the ruination.
Really there's not too much of an idea for this one.
Elemental Smolder:
I've drawn some art of this idea already, but it's what it sounds like. Smolder can have the cosmetics of the elemental drakes and even elder dragon.
Cafe Cuties Smolder:
He's an adorable little dragon and to me it kind of makes sense. His autos and Q could be him spitting coffee at you, his W could have a floating cup of coffee like a latte, etc.
Dragon Prince Smolder:
I feel like this one would be simultaneously the easiest and hardest to nail because he's already a dragon, but with this you'd have to really amp it up. It'd be really easy to make it seem like a recolor or make someone say "why is this is a thing he's already a dragon"
Fables Wyrm Smolder
I think it would really suit him because of all the other fable skins like leprechaun veigar, loch ness chogath, etc. but perhaps the gargoyle smolder idea already fits that.
I'm mastery 40 on the little shit. If I play him it's an almost instant win if the jg isn't camping me constantly and if I'm vs a smolder I'm fucked regardless of what I play. Death fire is way too op on him and I think I'm just gonna move to perma banning him every match just to offset the potential chance of someone else playing him so we don't instantly lose because my support walks into every smolder Q and W like a toddler into oncoming traffic while my dogshit viego jg one trick is off coddling our 0/5/0 garen because he screamed the loudest.
Rambling aside with that first part, I think this sucks the fun out of the game for me a bit. Unironically there is no more challenge to smolder anymore because now it's just picking the arcane comet preset, switching comet to deathfire, building ER then boots, then cleaver, and then boom. Win the game.
No longer is it the excitement of potentially turning a game around that may have seemed hopeless to carry with a passive elder buff. Now it's just machine gunning Q with deathfire burn and everyone melts before you even GET elder.
Sidenote: I'm sorry for all of the bitching I am quite drunk at the moment.
Just an idea I've doodled! he's like a haunted gargoyle or something. The background is gonna kill me but this is what I have so far!