Building Character I

What I love most about character design is that feel of liberty while working as much as the intuitive approach t attached with it. Not to mention the process of drawing and drawing and drawing your way to it.***************************************************************









The versatile character, Digital Acting Project 05

























Doodling with a scheme; letting the pen find
the expression that inspire the character's personality
and suggest styles.
Digital Acting, 05


















Contrary to the elephants that were simply to be cuties, at least the mini-supers had some
kind of attitude inherited from their cliché ; even tough it is only trying to look defiant in some various ways

Experimenting with various styles at the beginning is likely to inspire some character-personality and therefor storytelling by suggesting attitudes trough the drawings.













"The cow should be crazy." "What kind of crazy?" "..I don't know, make it crazy!" (...)














some random faces, random expressions
















Ten random characters

Placing it into it's environment to see how the characer blends in with it.
There where lots of racoons drawn in the evolutionary process of "Aroughcun"
Final animal at the tail-end.
































































'Aroughcun' - stretching the body allowed him to appear more mature; yet the crucial part was getting the eyes right. A great source of inspiration is Ghibli's "Pom Poko" for anyone ever to draw a racoon.
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Olycampus, roman bartender; development in further detail based on and around one simple basic idea. The bodybuild was decided on early, subsequently put in context with differing faces and in characteristical poses.













'Shogun Fox, watching the enemy', eyes and posture emphasise the spirit within.