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Character Design: Week8/9

Character Design- Week7

During today's lesson, we talked about environments and how they can influence our emotions depending on the shapes, colours and camera angles, as well as how much they can tell about the character if it's their lair.

We were asked to produce a landscape on the word given and Character. Mine was Stone Age with Crime fighter as a character.
I thought of him as a person who's got developed tools and a secret lair underground that leads to other lairs..
Really enjoyed this exercise

Character Design: Week6

This session was about silhouettes and how important they are in terms of designing a memorable character, the silhouette alone should tell the audience what the character is doing, basically it should tell as much as possible about the character.

these are some quick poses I have done during the lesson break

Character Design: Week5

During this lesson, it was mainly about drawing acting and drawing poses to understand it more for our characters, it was really good practise.

We were put into groups and then given two words( Commender and servant) and asked to take turns on acting and drawing them.

 After that, we had to think of a situation and act it then draw it and show it to the rest of the class to guess it, ours was pretty successful: someone being caught up while sneaking in and about to steal something.

The final task was about facial expressions, we were asked to pick a character and change their facial expressions:

Character Design: Week4

During this lesson, we were briefly introduced to the human anatomy and how to work from a normal pose to a detailed character.
We were also shown how to make a character fat/thin, transform a male to female and play around with the face shapes to come up with a different look.

So I started by drawing the Character's pose ( The Joker) ( Skull, Chest, waist, ankles..) which makes is easier to add the rest.

Then I have turned him into a fat woman, The face wasn't quite successful, the good thing I learnt is that you don't wanna mess with a fat female version of the Joker :D

I moved on to play with shapes and come up with different faces, I developed the left one with the body to make him fat.

Character Design: Week3

During this class, we were asked to create a character from an object in a specific interior. I was given a bedroom, So I listed all the things in a bedroom I could think of. I chose the plug and went to develop it further by trying to find faces on it.

The 2nd task was about bringing a functional object and turning it into a character by getting influence from a character. 

This is my object:

My Character for reference is the Joker, So i started with tracing the shapes the character is made of so I can translate them into my own character:

We can see it's mainly triangles which are relevant to a villain character, so I drew my character using triangles and elements from the Joker:

Character Design: Week2

During this session, we have talked about how shapes can affect the character in terms of his personality, for instance, circle and round shapes evoke softness and friendliness thanks to their soft roundness, Rectangular shapes communicate balance and strength and Triangular shapes refer to aggressiveness and danger due to their sharp points.

I believe this play a very important role on the human's mind and is very important in order to create interesting and successful characters.



I was given a character ( villain) and had to identify the shapes used and then change them in order to make him look less villain/ friendlier.
We notice the shapes used are mainly triangles which refer to aggressiveness.

I changed these shapes to more round and softened the edges and the pointy curves to obtain this:

For this exercise below, we were asked to choose a character we like and simplify it if it looks very realistic or make look realistic if it's simple.

The Character I used below is between simple and realistic. 

I drew him first then chose to simplify him.

This was a very useful lesson and will help me when designing my characters in the future.