"To create a believable character, you need to live with it, draw it over and over again, and know your character inside out and from every angle. Get inside it - know their personality and emotions, and give it life through your mark making - presence, weight, form, and shape.
Students are encouraged to try a range of different mediums, to explore a range of mark making techniques within their designs."
INSPIRATIONS
- Haley Newsome (aka Lavendertowne)
- Content creator, illustrator and comic artist
- Hundreds of videos explaining her creative process, very inspiring to watch and listen to her creative process
- Every character always has distinct features
- Particularly interesting video of her character design process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAJPsiM1Y0
- James Norbury
- Author and illustrator
- Simple style and character designs - adore the design of Tiny Dragon
- Character lineups look excellent as characters are distinct from one another
- Enough detail to communicate the character
SHAPES
- Thinking out of the box
- Resulted in characters I would have never drawn
- More constricting of two tasks given
- Making characters from whatever we see fit
- Much more fun than the shapes
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| One of favourite character designs - simple, cute, creepy |
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| Another favourite design - has narrative elements for a good horror story, reminiscent of The Thing |
STAMPS
- Boyfriend had just introduced me to the game 'Outer Wilds'
- Characters you play as are four-eyed blue aliens with big pointed ears sticking horizontally
- Wanted to emulate this character while keeping in mind the simple style of a 'Hollow Knight' character (platformer game) with their simple bodies and limbs
- Chose to give the character little boots as I thought it would be cute to mix and match with other people's character stamps
- Also had the option of using funky foam (recommended to try both rubber stamping and funky foam)
- Carved in very quick little alien, more inspiration taken from Outer Wilds
- Let ink dry too much on first attempt
- Could have been a little more detailed and well-thought-out, but was interesting to try the medium
- Worked back into best print with brush markers and fineliner
- Tried to make use of complimentary colours and use purple and yellow (opposite on the colour wheel) for striking alien colour scheme
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