Character Design

Just wanted to share my character from the visual narrative project for this semester. I'm actually really proud of my work for this unit, particularly because everything had to be done by hand, so no photoshop. Colouring the environment was pretty painful because of this. And annoyingly I forgot to scan it before submitting it. So I guess sharing that will have to wait until after Christmas.

A little bit about my character
Her name is Kristina
she's a 16 year old living in Munich in 1930
she has the loudest shout in the world
she has large muscular forearm
and she fantasises about being a slave of Satan

I really want to know who came up with these... some of the other characters were crazy.

Anyway the image at the top is my character turn around, which is painted in water colours. We also had to make a plasticine maquette, which was pretty fun too.

Concept City Street Project

Just wanted to post my two final images from my first module. The brief was to make two concept images of two different cities, one contemporary and the other historical. I chose Sibiu and Miami.

I loved this project and learnt a lot from it. I may have been pretty good at perspective drawings to start with, but designing urban landscapes was something that I really didn't have a lot of experience with. My use of colour has also gotten so much better. Before I used to use a lot of different bright colours and avoided both realism and restricted colour schemes because for some reason they always had a tendency to look muddy. Not a great look.

Anyway I can always say that I could have done better, but I'm actually really proud of these.

Digital Imaging Lesson

This lesson was based around using photos as a starting point for creating character designs. This was done through photo collage, digital painting and the use of other tools in photoshop.

I found the photo I started with online, however because I never intended to post it and was only messing around with it in class I don't have the reference for it. But I'm pretty proud of it for 2 1/2 hours work..so yeah... perhaps being a little naughty here.