My first assignment was to draw a character (Cap'n Bill Wheedles) from a written description. We had to do 5-7 exploration sketches and one final design.
Description: "Cap'n Bill Weedles is an ex-sailor with a wooden left leg from the knee down. His head is almost bald and what little hair he has is grizzled. His eyes are pale blue with a gentle look to them, and his face is round, rugged, and bronzed"
I tried to create a "cute" character because my audience are little kids. I tried to play with proportions. It's hard to get used to playing with the human body. I had a critique from people from my class and my professor. Very helpful. I love feedback. I need to keep working on it.
My second assignment was to design silhouettes for 2 characters (male and female). We had to pay attention to positive/negative space; big, medium, and small shapes; play with dominant masses, costumes, gestures, proportion and shape variation. We were only supposed to design the outside silhouettes. No details inside. My professor gave us a list of circus characters: Ringmaster, Lion/beast tamer, Fire eater, Sword swallower, Juggler, Buffoon, Strong man, Snake charmer, Acrobat.
I picked The Lion tamer for the female character and The Juggler for the male character. It was really hard to do this assignment. I was trying to pay lots of attention to the positive and negative space, but I felt like I couldn't play with a lot of things like costumes or gestures. I was having a hard time. I was very tempted to put details to help my character read better. Overall I learned so much about the importance of silhouettes. I still need to improve these characters.
My third assignment was to design a head. We had to draw faces for the circus characters that were assigned on our 2nd assignment. We had to experiment with shapes, proportions, personality, etc (Not focusing on facial expressions). We were aloud to create heads for the same characters that we designed on our 2nd assignment or to pick new circus characters.
I picked "Strong Man" for my male character and "Snake Charmer" for my female character. Some difficulties were trying to only play with big shapes for the male character because he didn't have a body to show that he was strong so I felt like all his facial features had to reflect that. I felt very limited. The female character was a little easier but when I was trying to exaggerate her facial features I felt like she didn't look like a girl anymore. haha. It was fun though.
As you can see, these characters are not the best. In fact, I should probably spend more time on my practice ones. But I have been trying to push myself- playing with the human proportions and not letting them look like real humans. It's so fun. I also used http://www.pinterest.com/ to search for more ideas.
This is my Character Design board if you are interesting in checking it out. You are welcome to follow it and get ideas from it. It's been very helpful for me :)
This is my Character Design board if you are interesting in checking it out. You are welcome to follow it and get ideas from it. It's been very helpful for me :)
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