Pirates Of Dark Water fan art / re-design

I have been thinking about Pirates of Dark Water for a while now, and how unique it was when I was  a kid. recently I have been thinking of ways of pushing those old designs. I took the first most memorable character, "Ioz" for his roughness and "Han Soloish" traits and tried pushing his design. One thing I noticed is that there wasn't a whole lot to suggest that Ioz belonged to unique world like Dark Water, or read like a pirate. Ioz had this Mongolian trait which I think was for some smart thinking for the time in which Dark water was made and the intended young audience and I really admire that a lot.

I made efforts to give him a very distinct face in terms of the silhouette and push a Mongolian/Middle Eastern feel to him, hence the Arabic boots. After that I designed everything to have that Dark Water feel, giving most things a bony or pointy look to them.

Next was "Ren", the male lead, which I will get to in my next blog since there are a few more design images of him I would like to elaborate on.