Leiyu

Wanting to expand styles of characters I've created and modeled before, I chose to make a character that would fit into the Genshin Impact world both in it's style and lure. Researching designs of already pre-existing characters, I took notes of what made this style but also what holes hadn't been dove into so far. With that in mind, I chose to create a Electro Element based female character that resided in the Liyue region of the game. I also had two reasons as to why I chose to design a woman; a. to expand and diversify my character creations b. to challenge Genshin impact's style and styles similar to this that tend to oversexualize nearly all and only their female characters. Hyper-sexualization isn't inherently a flaw, in-fact it can be empowering for real people but, with fictional characters it can be repetitive and dehumanizing when all characters of one gender are sexualized. Point is, the creation of this character challenges the need of all women to be visually sexual and promotes a diversity in both the Genshin characters (in terms of expression) and my portfolio (in terms of gender).