"La Vida Loca"

I sarted to work on the main character design, and the first thing I had to choose was...where is this guys gonna be from? So I started doing different skin-tone example.

I ve choose to use the "mexican" for different reasons. First, I can't actually remember a game with a mexican protagonist (except a 3rd person shooter with "vida loca" in the title, or something like that). Also, (biggest reason of all) mexiacns have a huge tattoo tradition, with a lot of different meanings. I started the research and to do some really fast sketch for them, I have almost finished the design for one of the biggest (a girl-skull resembling the day of the dead). I sketched different jail uniform, and at the end I created the concept for two, in order to decide which one I prefer.

Over that, I  made different iteration of the map, (see notebook) deciding what kinda of jail I wanted, ad the main sector of it, with the different way of mapping different rooms.