Historical Female Character Design- Amelia Earheart and Space Birb!

The students I were teaching were doing a project to redesign a historically important female figure as a video game character, so to best teach them some concept art methods and techniques I did the project alongside them.

I chose Amelia Earheart and decided to re envision her story as if her plane was swallowed by a wormhole created by this alien avian species. She theorises she could potentially travel back to her world if she can train one of the birds from birth to fly on. It was sort of like Castaway meets How to train your dragon!

These renders show Amelia when she first lands on this alien planet and how she engineers her crashed plane into make-shift Falconry gear to train the wounded bird she finds, and how the big the species can grow once they reach maturity.