Character Concepts Stage Two

Once I had created these various designs, I decided to go back a stage, and create developed silhouettes of these designs to push my ideas further and some more possible designs for my character to develop further.

Female Character Concepts

Set 1.

Set 2:

Set 3

Set 4:

Set 5:

Set 6:

Male Character Designs:

Set 1.

Set 2.

Set 3:

Set 4:

Edit: after blogging this post, I asked some friends what they thought of my designs, whether they thought any looked similar to existing characters, and which ones they preferred. 

Amy: The female ones, I really like the bottom row of set 5, the horns and stuff are hella cool * u * but I also like the furry boot things from the set above so maybe a combination of the two things?

And the dudes, I like set 3 all of them, but mostly bottom right.

 Tim: I like set: 2 - 3rd, 3 - 4th, 6 - 4th, 7 - 4th

Character Concepts Stage One

With the stress of dissertation over, I was finally able to give my studio work my full attention. Over the past two weeks I have been researching and developing my two character designs. To give myself some ideas I first began sketching screenshots of people and their clothing from the show The Tudors and Pillars of the Earth, as well as different people to practice drawing faces.

I then started with simple silhouettes drawn in black biro in a sketchbook to jot down ideas, developing a few into a simple sketch when I found one I particularly liked.

Male Thumbnail Designs

Female Thumbnail Designs

Once I felt I couldn't create any new ideas, I began sketching out some of the thumbnails in my sketchbook and Photoshop, experimenting with a bit more detail of clothing ideas.

With the designs above, I was trying to imitate the design of a fox, particularly the darker legs and arms, which could be some sort of mud, and create Fox like ears through the styling of the hair. 

I really like these designs, they capture a good balance between hand made clothes and 16th century materials.

I like this design on the left, but feel it may be too tribal.

I really like this badger hat design, I wanted to develop ideas of different animal furs the siblings would wear.

Research and Reference Images

While I have been creating my character designs and developing them, I have been keeping a folder of reference images I have found for influences in my designs.

Recently I have noticed feathers appearing in a lot of modern fashion, and found some interesting ways they are being used to create jewellery and clothing: