Initial Reaserch

First thing I wanted to do was to gather references for the art style of the game and the concept art, since the game is 3D I'm mostly looking at the concepts that were published in the strategy guide as any other concepts are hard to come by.

My next step after gathering references for the style is to decide what characters I will be drawing. I wanted to focus on part 7 [steel ball run, or SBR] as that has some of my favourite designs as well as having some of the least representation within the game.

The characters already represented in the game are Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli, Diego Brando and Funny Valentine, so the cast that is left for me to choose from is very big.

I want to choose ones that I enjoy the designs of as well as ones that I will be able to translate into the games style. I also considered ones that would work well with the games mechanics, so characters like Pocoloco (whos stand wouldn't have much of a role as it is purely a luck based stand, which would be near impossible to incorporate into the style of game), Steven steel, Gregorio Zeppeli, George Joestar and the other non stand users would not be able to be included into the game.

My choices right now, based purely from their aesthetics and their possible roles in game are Hot Pants, Mountain Tim, Wekapipo, Blackmore, RIngo Roadagain, Magenta Magenta, Dr Ferdinand and the Boom Boom brothers.

My next step is to bring that list down so I can begin my research into what their main and alternate outfits will be.