Character Design: Crit Presentation

Character Bible by Kym Mumford

Character Design: final concepts

Here are my final concept art for all three of my characters. Quite happy with the way they turned out.

Character expression sheets

 Here are my expression sheets for all three characters I really struggled with these their quite difficult to do and out of this whole project they are my least favourite things. My villain was a particularly big problem as there's not much of his face that can move except his jaw. So I was quite limited in his expressions and in the end I could only really come up with three.

Updated Sidekick turnaround

On Justin's advice I made a few minor changes to my sidekick to enforce the possessed aspect to him, and introduce a more asymmetrical aspect to him. Also I decreased the width of his body to be in proportion to the rest of him.

Character design: Villain development and turn around

I did a few more sketches of my villain just to make sure I knew what I was doing when it came to making his turn around. 

Character Design: Sidekick development

Since my sidekick is my hero's brother I used my hero to design him. I've kept them very similar and changed the the nose mostly. I then started to think about how he will look when the villain posses him. It's quite difficult to show the way he is going to look without colour so the sketches were just to help me figure out some things. His eyes are going to be the same as the villains, not in shape but in colour. He will have veins spider-webbing over his skin coming from his temples and neck and they will spread over his body. he will have gaunt cheeks and chapped lips etc..

Below is some options for my sidekicks hair, I didn't add on all the extras onto his face since I just wanted to figure out his hair. I'm thinking of going for number 5.

Below is just an outline of what my sidekick will look like, When I do the final concept art for him is when I'll be adding all the colour and shading details to him. This shows what his clothes and the colour of them will be. I took his clothing design from the sheet I did for my hero since they are from the same tribe and brothers I wanted them to be wearing similar things.

Below is my sidekicks turnaround from the side you can see his spine sticking out from his back a lot more than a human spine should this is one of the areas that the villain that is possessing him shows through along with his eyes etc..

Hero Turnaround

Here is the final turn around for my hero character now all I have left for him is his facial expression, poses and final concept art in a chosen pose for him.

Character design: Hero development

Here is my hero development so far. I did a few experiments as to what type of hair and clothes I wanted, and then did some quick colour variations with the clothes so I could decide what colours Ill be using for him. I preferred quite neutral colours. 

Villain Progress

I thought I would give drawing my villain in 3/4 view a go and try and connect it to the rest of the body. Below is the result, I'm quite happy with it the body is slightly out of proportion but as a first attempt I'm pleased with it.

Character Design: Villain development

After struggling with my villain character quite a lot over the past few days I think I finally have a design for him. I need to draw him out fully now but I think most of the designing is done for him and I can go back to focusing on my hero and sidekick.

Hero and Villain development

Here is my progress so far with my hero and villain. I'm struggling quite a lot with my villain I know what I want his body to look like but his head is still a bit up in the air. I think the only way to get round it is I'm just going to have to keep drawing him till I come up with something I like, so I decided to leave him for the time being and move onto my hero. I pretty much have him figured out I just need to give him some hair so that I can refine his features a little more, at his moment his nose might be slightly to wide.

Character Design: Villain Environment/Prop

Finally finished this but this is where my villain was trapped along with all the other elder gods by the ancestors of the native american tribe that both my sidekick and hero belong to. This is also the area that my sidekick stumbles upon and gets infected by Malsumis the villain in my story.

Character Design Lesson

On our last character design lesson we were put into groups and then given various tasks we had to complete in a certain amount of time as well as between the group designing 6 characters.
Below are the two characters I designed Gork and Boltz.

Below is the environment I designed for the evil doctors laboratory.

Here are the logos we designed.

Character Design: Villain prop/environment

Here are some more thumbnails and my progress on the final concept art of my villain prop/environment. I really struggled getting the perspective right in this one I drew it out about 10 different times trying to get it the foreground and background elements in the correct perspective, but I'm only posting a few of them. In the end I changed the composition of the image to make it a little easier for myself. The fourth image is the progress of my final concept art its still in the beginning phases, just has the basic light and shadows in it, with none of the carving detail in the tree or the stones yet but I thought I would post up my progress with it.

Character Design: Bow and Arrow prop

Below is my concept art for my Bow and arrow prop. 

Character Design: Prop concept art

Here is the final concept art for my knife prop.

Character Design lesson

In this weeks class we focused on environments and how an environment can show the personality of a character. We were each given a type of environment we had to create. Mine was an aquatic pirates cabin.

Character Design: Villain Prop

This prop is more of an environment than a prop. But it is what contains all the Elder Gods. What I mean by that is that it's the anchor for the spell that banished them from the world. I have the concept I want for it now and I've decided that once I'm in photoshop and have drawn it out I'm then going to add the details of things carved into the tree like eyes and claws.

Character Design: Hero Prop

Here are some thumbnails for my Bow and Arrow which is my other prop for my hero. I need to take these into photoshop now and play around with some colours. I know which bits and pieces that I want to combine together to make the final design.

Character Design: Prop

Have done a few thumbnails for one of my props the knife. I want it to be quite simple and look quite handmade and well used. I like 7 the best so I think the next step is taking it into Photoshop and giving it a bit more colour and texture.