Character Design | Task 2 | Character Design Development

 

Character Design | Task 2

3/10/2022 (week 5) - 17/10/2022 (week 7)

Nurul Asilah Binti Mohamad Asif | 0353346 | Character Design | Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Task 2 | Concept development, Sketches

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Lecture

This week Ms. Anis thought about our ways and how to draw poses. Which is a big help for Mr. Kanaan's anatomy class too. 

We learned some pose studies in the youtube video given - How to draw better poses by Marc Brunet https://youtu.be/7I5xnCEd3Cc

We were assigned to look at the guidebook given and to refer to the Applied dynamics from pages 14-17 and the Flow from pages 32-35. Explore poses and expressions from 21-draw 100 famous Artists.

Poses to Illustrators

21-Draw Illustrators Guidebook 

• Designing A female Superhero page 74-76

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Instructions 

Weekly Briefs 

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Poses

I started drawing my sketches for the poses, In the instructions, we were supposed to draw 8 poses for our characters and how they would interact with the enemies or with their abilities.

Since I chose Valorant for the "chosen universe" I began and did my research for how each agent would look like and what poses they do to interact in the game-play. In the game, each agent has 4 abilities with certain timings for them to use during attacks or defending. Therefore I made 4 abilities that suits my character. 

Fig1.1 Abilities of character (8/10/22)

Fig1.2 Sketch of character Turn-around (8/10/22)

Fig1.3 Character poses (9/10/2022)

One of her little abilities I decided to make little whisps for her character as a sidekick to support Daniela and her radianite powers.

I made 3 drawing options of how I want the whisps to look. Below are the options.

Fig1.4 3 Whisps drawing (9/10/22)

I decided to go for the first whisps only because the colors look suitable and it looks chubby which is cute for Daniela's character story.

Fig1.5 Chosen Whisps and labeled abilities (10/10/22)

Fig1.6 Chosen Whisps Final (10/10/22)

 

Fig1.5 Chosen Whisps and labeled abilities (10/10/22)

 

Fig1.6 Chosen Whisps Final (10/10/22)

Expressions 

For Daniela's expressions, I managed to find some inspiration for her looks. I really like the character to have a wide range of expressions and a hint of drama in it. I made Daniela look a little bit emo to match her past story, so it builds up in the story as the lore furthers its story. 

Fig1.7 Sketches 1 (11/10/22)

Fig1.8 Sketches 2 (11/10/22)

Fig 1.9 Bust Expressions (12/10/22)

Outfits 

For week 7, we were assigned to create alternative outfits for our characters. However, my character comes from the game Valorant, it does not quite have a different outfit but skins for the weapons themselves. So I decided to make some changes to the outfit's colors instead.  

Fig 2.0 Moodboard costume study (12/10/22)

I played around with the color hues to see what colors would look better on Daniela.

I decided to go for number 1 instead since it does match the moldboard as well. 

Fig 2.1 Color study on the character (12/10/22)

Weapon 

As for Daniela's weapon, I decided for her to have a bow and arrow, instead of knives and guns because it would look like a unique style in my opinion. However, I would also love for it to come with a silhouette of her radianite powers too but with a different variation of colors. 

Fig 2.2 Bow and arrow moldboard (12/10/22)

I did a total of 5  Sketched weapons including the arrow and its pointer. I made from simple to a wide range of Vikers' bows just to do some experiments while I color it later on. 

Fig 2.3 Weapon Sketch (12/10/22)

I decided to go for the first one just because of how Daniela's character in a past life would carry a simple bow that is not too heavy and too big for her to run around with her teammates as well as to not slow the team down. 

Fig 2.4 Colored Version (12/10/22)

As for her arrow, I went for different colors to show how her powers would look like when it is shot toward the enemy. 

Fig 2.5 Arrows in different colors (12/10/22)

Fig 2.6 Arrows in different colors #2 (12/10/22)

Fig 2.7 Bow's holder radiates (12/10/22)

Character and Weapon 

For Daniela's pose, I decided to go for pose number 3. 

Fig 2.8 Character Pose chose no.3 (12/10/22)

Final Pose 

Fig 2.9 Final Pose with Weapon (13/10/22)

Final slide

Fig 3.0 Final task 2 slide [Week 10] (6/11/22)

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Most of the feedback was already given since Task 1 since it was a public holiday, so i managed to complete most of my tasks. 

Reflection

I find this part of the assignment way more interesting than the first because I was able to do a lot of research based on my character and the outfits and weapons as well. I get to explore so many options for drawing on Pinterest which leads me to wonder if I could so much better with my drawings. Nevertheless, I am still proud of this character design and wish I could sell it to Riot Gamings.