Character Design

Character Design
Character Design was for me a particularly good module, it allowed me to practice anatomy and composition to make believable characters.

I enjoyed creating facial expressions and different characters for me to decide what one I wanted to create for my final piece,
Here are some of the Concepts I created for this project before I decided what character I was creating.

Dynamic poses to try and create some interesting views for my characters

 These were the character concepts I designed to choose from, many people like different characters but I choose my personal favorite from these as I enjoyed the design the most.

This was a practice of facial expressions so I could ad them to my character, I had never tried something like this before and I was very happy about the outcome

The character I designed was a Cyclops called Greegore, despite his size and lack on intellect he has a heart of gold, this idea for me is very enjoyable I love the gentle giant type characters, I attempted to create many different versions of Greegore to fit the style I wanted.

Here are some design concepts for Greegore that I created for the module;

This image was one of the first images I drew for Greegore he was originally a very large and angry character designed to be a boss fight or an antagonist. The small character is there to determine Greegores overwhelming size.

 This was a portrait of Greegore I created using a 3D designing program (3Ds MAX) and then I painted over the top of it to create a realistic version of Greegores face, He ended up looking like a sailor, but I liked it so I left it as is

Here are some dynamic poses for the character I decided that only one of them I actually liked so I went ahead and colored that one and added it to the final model sheet.

Facial expressions that made it on the final model sheet, I hope you can see the slow advancement in quality as y skill increases as I draw the faces, the final model sheet ended up having two extra great expressions that I use on the two poses I created for Greegore.

And finally this is the last Model sheet I handed in, I am quite proud of it even though I feel like some of the lines are very scratchy and sharp.

This module was very fun for me, It allowed me to show myself that I could create characters, which is a skill I previously thought I didn't have, though the character is simple, the art looks good.

SWOT

Strengths
Greegore looks good, I feel like this module helped me understand the importance of personality in character designs, I was able to show complex emotion on a character, Very happy with it

Weaknesses
Simple design makes Greegore look a bit plain, I would have added more items on his person to give him more likeability, but I was pressed for time. I also had difficulty just doing a character at all, as I am normally juts used to doing environments

Opertunities
It will be a nice addition to my artbook to see one character development and a little story about him, I am hoping it will attract people to my developing skills.

Threats
I would have dove this all traditionally, avoided unnecessary costs, but I am more confident with my digital skills so I had to spend that extra money and time creating it in Photoshop, I had a large amount of time to do this project which allowed me to relax a little bit too much.