Evaluation

My objective this year was to create a selection of character designs suitable for my portfolio.
By the time of submission, I have met the brief and created the set amount of pages. This year also, I think I have grasped the concept of character design more so than ever before. I have become a lot more focused on picking out shapes for silhouettes and it has made me realise the ideas and the research and the wide variety and selection of concepts before a final design are the most important parts of character concepting.

Because of this, I have decided that actually, I dont think character concept art is necessarily the area for me. I really like creating very detailed illustrations, and with the detailed drawing style I like to work in, doing many multiple concepts makes me feel rushed and being unable to work up all the designs to a great standard because of the variations I must produce I actually find irritating. I think next semester, whilst I still want to focus on characters (because characters are the thing I find most fin to draw) I want to focus more on illustration than on concepting. I think creating large, lush illustrations will be more enjoyable for me than doing concepts so I think I'll take on, in my self written project, a brief more like the ones suggested this year where the aim was to produce art/covers for books such as Dorian Gray ect.

Character concept art was always the area I assumed I wanted to go into because I liked drawing people, but after finally discovering more about the industry and processes, I'm going to use next semester to explore other areas to see if I can develop my skills in other ways and maybe find something I actually enjoy doing more.

EDIT: I wish I'd pushed the unnatural conventions more as described in the brief and gone for a less human design.

Antagonist Posed Sheet

Put the two antagonist action poses together.

More Final Pages

Created the protagonist sheets in the same manner as the antagonist sheets

More Final Sheets

Reworked the line art and tonal sheets, I have changed them from the previous versions using blue and sepia to black and white. This way, they are more matching with the other sheets creating a more succinct look.

Orthographic Colour Sheet | Antagonist

Finished the orthographic colour sheet with pull outs

Back Orthographic Pose Antagonist

Finished the orthographic back pose in tonal, using the same technique as the antagonist front pose, building it up in black and white first rather than colour. The sense of light and shadow works better this way.

Antagonist Orthographic Colour Pose with Pull outs | In Progress

Used the two references to start building up a orthographic colour sheet. Tried using both a dark and light backdrop but decided the white was better. It matches with the action page I have completed so far and I think the figures also stand out better against the white.