Now that i have began my character design project, I wanted to start off the project by researching into various artists and techniques that could help me throughout the project. The two most important subjects that i looked into were character trends and character boards. Obviously, this is a character design project so looking into how to create a strong and impressive looking story board is important, additionally character trends help as i can see what makes a strong design in general. Seeing what makes a character work and what doesn't work is vital information when going into this type of project. I also looked into various artists that use certain techniques and art styles that i believe may help me within my project. Below you can see the research pages that i put together within my sketchbook:
Over the past week i have made significant progress throughout both of my chosen subjects, Zbrush and Pixel art. Ad for my pixel art characters, i have decided to create three characters that are all completely different from each other. These three characters will resemble my fire team form the game destiny, Me and my two friends. The character below is my character and you can see that although it is pixel art, it shares no characteristics from the last design, they are all going to be completely different and i cannot wait to see how all three compare to each other once they are finished. As for my dragon, i was able to add a lot more detail to both the horns and face. I even added an additional two horns to bring the character more to life and give him a more interesting silhouette. As you can see the character also has antlers and wisps coming from his chin, this was heavily inspired from Haku the white dragon from the Studio Ghibli movie 'Spirited Away.' Although I te...
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