Character Design Final

My final for character design -- meet Seymour!

Life drawing -- CTNX/airports

A little bit of the sketching that I managed to get away with in between running back and forth between workshops and portfolio reviews at CTNX! I had a blast and can't wait to go back next year!

Co-Star Character Design

For [one of] this week's HW assignments, I had to design a sidekick or co-star for my previous character corresponding to a time period of my choice. (I chose my Old West time period variation -- I love westerns). The result was Wranglin' Raccoon!

Wranglin' Raccoon is the lead villain in the Old West alternate universe of Drama Llama. He's the mastermind and head of a notorious band of outlaws of which Drama Llama is a member. Unfortunately for Wranglin' Raccoon, he's miles ahead in the brains department compared to the rest of his merry band of wrong-doers and thus he ends up spending more time trying to extricate himself from their botched robbery attempts than actually planning nefarious deeds.

Some of the preliminary research/sketches:

Then I did color variations! This was a really useful exercise -- I'm trying to improve my color design, and doing this exercise made me think outside of the box a bit from what I would normally consider.

Character Design through time -- Heffner the Drama Llama

A fun little character design exercise involving my drama llama character, Heffner. I tried to keep a pretty consistent color palette (mostly red with some blue and yellow) and tried to keep in mind his position as a "background" character. In order:

1. Original 2. Circus Clown circa 1910 3. Cave Llama 4. Wild West Outlaw Member 5. 1960's Hippie (circa Woodstock) 6. Ancient Greek Philosopher (he does like to talk a lot) 7. 70's Punk Rocker 8. Star Trek Red Shirt 9. Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Builder 10. 50's Housewife

Expressions

Exploring expressions for my character, Yvonne!

I took 5 different expressions and tried to show them 5 different ways.

Character Swap -- Drama Llama

We swapped character descriptions in class, and I got to pair up with the always awesome Cameron McClain. I had a lot of fun with this assignment!

Hefner the drama llama is a recurring background character. He's skinny, derpy, clumsy, and the epitome of an untrustworthy gossip -- don't tell him anything that you don't want EVERYONE else to know too!

Group Project -- "Spellbound"

Some work I did for a group project for character design. I ended up designing the main character -- a precocious young girl in a rural farming village who learns she can do real magic after a con-artist hack magician passes through her town.

Some exploratory sketches and silhouettes:

The final design and some exploration of her character. I imagine her to be pretty spunky and independent character who doesn't like to be told what to do.

Then I did the layout for one of the beatboards, illustrating Hazel showing her best friend, Louise, her new found skill. The very awesome Michelle Rakar ended up cleaning up and coloring!

Some environment studies that I did: