Character Design Homework #1

This is my first homework for Stephen Silver's character design class. We were given a character profile of Londoner Walter Chipwitter, an enthusiastically jolly, heavyset, wealthy entrepreneur in his 60's wearing a bow tie, smoking jacket and a monocle.

Homework #1 was to gauge our technical abilities so he could give us better feedback in the upcoming weeks. I wish I could have spent more time on good ol' Walter, but The Bear and I were heading out to Seattle to celebrate our anniversary, so no weekend time for this one. Kind of rushed.

His feedback? That I needed to draw through my shapes and focus on better anatomy and construction. Yup yup. Too many parallel lines. And it would have helped to draw the gesture of the pipe first, then figure out how his hands were going to wrap around it rather than the other way around.

Monster #14

Bear-Rat has heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack, but nailclippers? At least his friend Apple-Bird is trying to cheer him up with a song.

Akuma WIP

Just more digital painting practice, yay something besides daily sketch monsters! Although I guess he is a monster demon type thing too... 2 hours in so far, using Capcom 3rd strike pics for reference. (by far the best one in the series, IMO)

Monster #13

Yes, she is a natural redhead! I guess you could also call it strawberry blonde.

Monster #12

I'm falling behind on posting monsters, mainly because I get too lazy to boot up my computer in the evenings after work. The blogger interface on mobile devices doesn't play nice with uploading images. Something to do with wanting iphones to use Google+ to upload images and not recognizing images or the actual app after installation, blah blah blah. I wish Apple and Google wouldn't hate each other so much.

On a completely different note, I'm going to be taking Character Design with Stephen Silver this fall starting next week. The monsters will probably trickle in more slowly and be often replaced by homework from that class instead. Several of my friends have already taken this course and recommended it highly, so I'm excited!