Character sheet, King

This is my character sheet for my chosen character the king. I wanted to do the character in different poses that show his personality. I wanted to give my character a personality that is snobby, lazy, selfish, proud and rude. I think a few of these actions show this. The actions range from him walking, which he seems to be quite lazy, another is him sitting down, one being him with his legs crossed hand on chin, this action seems that he is a rude if not bored person. There is also a action where he is standing very proud of himself, this show that he is confident or even big headed.

This is a expression sheet, I wanted to do a expression sheet because I wanted my character to have charisma. Here you can get a sense of what the character is like in his nature. In all there are 6 different types of expressions here:

1. Bored/normal face

2.Annoyed

3. Scared (Of the dogs)

4. Angry

5.Snobby/talking

6.Smirking

 

Model Sheet, King

This is my model sheet for the character project, this also shows my  final design of my king character. I have drawn a front view, side and back view of my character. I placed the character in a T pose position, I have seen in the past a few character model sheets using this pose. It seems to be the most efficient way of modelling from a sketch in a T pose.  I'm happy with the final design of my character. The clothing seems to match well with the time era, and the colours. I added a gold detailed pattern to his undercoat . I think it gives the king a richer look. I chose a blue/purple colour for his undercoat because this is a colour that has been used for centuries in royalty, as it represents power, wealth etc.. I decided to stick with my idea for the characters hairstyle to be the classic bushy wig a lot of the men especially kings wore in the Georgian times. With doing a model sheet I always find the side view to be the hardest. I struggle more with the proportions of the character, It took me  a little time to get the side view  correct enough.

My character idea designs, King

 

These are some quick design sketches of different styles that my king character could look like. With these drawings I used a silhouette of a human figure first then I put my design on top.

Week 6 summary

This week I have been busy with experimental practice with realistic painting, and generally just doing more development work for my  character. I have found my work flow is a little show but I believe I have produced a few ideas. I am worried that I will get a little dragged down into improving my skills on one area and not developing the idea and making something final. I will start from early next week to start and then complete by the end of next week a model sheet, character sheet and final design idea and piece for my character. In a lecture this week I was working on my project and I was sitting next to another student, I glanced at his work a few times and was admiring his work. I saw something I really liked which was a series of realistic painted faces. I Told him that I really liked that piece of work and how did he accomplished it, he went through step by step, start to finish how he did a particular face. I watched and listened for over 30 minutes. I thought it was so nice of him to show me, I learn a bit from watching him. I would love to be able to achieve a similar style in digital painting, it will be hard work but I am eager to learn and become better.

I also had life drawing this week, I enjoyed this session a lot more than my first one. We were told about lighting, we had to draw the model without using line, we had to use white chalk to sketch only the light that form the structure of the model.