Exercise: Character Development

Character Development


31/07/2018


' Collect as many examples as possible of different characters - Newspapers and magazines are a particular good source. Catalogue these characters as types - babies, children, sportsmen, old woman - create your own category headings.

Decide upon a character you would like to create.

Begin to brainstorm around your character - perhaps there are characters from the media or your own life you would like to focus on. 

Draw your character from the front, from the side and from the back. It may help to draw lines from the neck, shoulder, waist and knees as an aid scale and to ensure a sense of proportion.

Draw your character over and over again. Get into role and adopt their mood , expression and personality. Try moving the facial features around to extremes and using a few lines and dots to represent the face.

The try another, different, character. Make sure you come up with someone completely different, not just the same person in different clothes.'



  First I made two moodboards, One was human characters and the second was animal characters:

Moodboard_01

Moodboard_02

   I then made a Spider Diagram to brain storm what kind of character I wanted to create:
Spider Diagram 
  The first character I created is a Ballet Dancer, I like to flow of the moves of the Ballet dancer and thought it would be interesting to try and capture that movement: 

Ballet Dancer Character_01


Ballet Dancer Character_01
  
  I used water colour paints to capture the movement in this picture. 
  I have a fashion book that has templates in it, I used this to help with the stances its called New Fashion Figure Templates by Patrick John Ireland. 
  The Ballet clothes that she is wearing is referenced from Ballet classes and I just created how I thought it could look on this particular character, she is elegant, delicate and fluid. 

  The next character I took reference from a Beano Comic, I did a female version of Dennis the Menace:

Dennis the Menace Female_01

Denice the Menace Female_02

  So I created this time a Female version of Dennis the Menace, I took reference of the classic red and black clothes but also tried to incorporate school clothes as this is a teenage girl who hasn't quite grown out the mischievous faze. 

  I haven't quite got the handle of drawing faces and this is what I will separately work on in my own sketchbook. Overall I like how my characters have turned out, especially character number_01 The Ballet Dancer. 

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