Character Design - TASK 2: Concept Development
Sajiya Mir (0340836)
Character Design
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
TASK 2: Concept Development
Instructions
Task 2:
Week 6:
This week we started with the character's facial expressions. Once I had finalized her face I tried applying a different expression to her.
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| Fig.1.0 Facial Expression |
Week 7
Next, we had to come with 10 poses that our characters can do for the final poster, as I wanted my character to have either a staff or a sword for a weapon I tried looking at references and drawing poses keeping those weapons in mind.
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| Fig.1.1 Poses |
Week 8:
From the 10 poses I created, I picked five poses that I thought would suit my character well, and on those poses, I add 5 different costumes. I once again research more on costumes for nomadic people and this time I tried looking at different countries such as Greece, Russia, and Magnolia for inspiration. I paired each costume to a pose I thought would suit and also added the weapons I had designed in Task 1.
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| Fig.1.2 Pose 1 and Costume 1 |
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| Fig.1.3 Pose 2 and Costume 2 |
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| Fig.1.4 Pose 3 and Costume 3 |
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| Fig.1.5 Fig.1.4 Pose 4 and Costume 4 |
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| Fig.1.6 Pose 5 and Costume 5 |
Week 10:
For the final outfit design, I combined costumes 2 and 3 after getting feedback from Ms. Anis. As for the color I went with green because as she is from the grassland I wanted her outfit to almost camouflage with her surrounding. At the same time, I wanted to still look royal so I added the gold accents.
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Fig.1.7 Default Outfit For the transform outfit, I might have misunderstood the instructions and drew my character wearing the costume of Zenitsu from Demon slayer. After Ms. Anis kindly explained my misunderstanding I designed an outfit that my character could wear if she were in the Demon Slayer universe. |
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| Fig.1.8 Transform Outfit draft |
Week 11:
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| Fig1.9 Transform Outfit Final |
Feedback
[Week 6]:
- Goodjob but you are still playing it a bit safe with the mouth of the character. So play around a bit more and look at references.
[Week 7]:
- The poses do look a bit stiff because you are very technical with your drawing. Pay attention to the s curves.
[Week 10]:
- Everything looks good, you can even try to combine a few costumes for the final one. I personally really like number 2.
Reflection
I enjoyed doing this task because I enjoy designing costumes. However, I struggled with drawing poses because I am very technical with my drawing and couldn't achieve these curves Ms. Anis was explaining to us. I also have difficulty drawing facial expressions from different angles, which is probably why I stuck with the same front angle. This is something I want to keep practicing in order to get better at. Overall I am happy with what I was able to achieve in this task; the coloring and detailing of the character really made bring it to life and I was happy with the character I made.
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