Character Design Homework #3

Part of the homework for class #3 was to try and design characters based off of the Jekyll and Hyde silhouette studies that we did 2 weeks ago. My Hyde one didn't come out like I was hoping, but my Jekyll, or "Canadian Wilderness explorer Jack Hall" ended up in an okay place. Here he is.

Character Design Homework #2

This week's homework was to do another version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a silhouette study. My version was of Mr. Jeck Hull, an intrepid Canadian explorer in the 1940's going through the mountains in search of a creature terrorizing some local livestock near a native burial ground. But there is something wrong with the land, and he finds himself turning into a confused, threatening beast only known as "The Hide."

This was my first time doing these, and it was really difficult. Honestly I don't think I did a very good job of defining and pushing my shapes, and if I had time, I'd do another page of both characters. Still, it was fun to do, and I resolve to do more of these on my own time, especially when preparing for longer term projects.

 

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.