Apex Legends - 6th Anniversary - Promotional Artwork 2025
Happy Apexversary 🥳
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Pathfinder invited all his legendary friends to the 6th Apexversary celebration 🎉
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This project of 2025 has been one of the biggest challenges of my art career.
What started as a simple idea grew bigger with every day and at times made me question my skills.
While it was a joy to work on I was not used to draw this multitude of characters and also had to perform on a rather tight schedule.
Thanks to the help of the project manager it still came out on time and turned out the way the client, Apex Legends, was hoping it would.
I had the idea to include a ton of references, hide nessies as a search picture and add decorations that could also be produced/translated to real life.
The learning experience was a tuff one but I think I leveled up my own skills with this project-
that being said, I don't think I'll ever draw that many characters in one illustration ever again :'D
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Apex Legends by Respawn Entertainment
Patfinder singled out as the motive for the promotional T-Shit design
t-Shirt mockup presented by Apex Legends
search image to engage the community
First mockup presented to Respawn
Posed in Clip Studio Paint
Used to present the idea/layout and also lighting of the scene
sketching the characters after the layout got approved by the art director
Rough blocking in of the lights/shades
Flat colors and adjusting character expressions/poses
example of pose changes: Loba's posture/expression/body language
The progress was not linear and a couple of challenges were met during visualizing the color theme and light setting. The learning curve was steep.
PROGRESS
As I can only work during the evening/night hours each picture represents a day+ of work.