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http://poomnegotiated.blogspot.com/

Researching other character design

Looking at what other people do for character design in google, there is no background at all. Instead it is more focus on character, one or as a group. But if I change the key word to concept art for game, then I will find characters in the setting.

Researching character design

I have research on character design and I came across an essay "Character development and its utilization for convergent media formats" by Vira Haglund 2012, summarizing what he wrote

The character has to be intriguing, the character need to make the audience want to see, read more about them. The viewer need to feel something for the protagonist. The character needs to be detailed for the viewer to care for. “In order to achieve an emotional bond between character and audience it is crucial to equip the character with traits, a personal background, motives, beliefs and values which are convincing and believable.” Haglund,V(2012)

Matte painting background for Jake

These are reference images

Why I chose these images, I chose the castle because I that is where he live. From the character design I made him look wealthy so a castle is a fitting place of resident for him. I had to change the lights that effect the castle. The second picture got a nice feel to the landscape, It look dramatic because of the sunset. The mountain and everything looks like hell perfect for the last boss. I removed the dragon and replace it with the castle. I  The fantasy tree on the last picture, it wraps around the castle, to give a feeling of getting control, overwhelm by the dark energy. So I change the texture of it so it match the background.

Source from

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/228839224789615174/

Source from

http://www.wallpaper4me.com/wallpaper/Volcanic-Dragon/

Source from

http://wallpapers-kid.com/fantasy-hd-wallpapers-1920x1080/fantasy-hd-wallpapers-1920x1080.htm

Collage the three pictures + Jake

Final image(need to fix a few details)

Sketches

These are the sketches for fiona, I have brainstorm many pose for Fiona. The reason I chose this pose is because I think of the pose myself and I feel better using what I draw.

This pose is a mid action pose which means the background will have to be in action as well, to justify her reason for running. Which is harder to be done.

This pose is a fighting stance, it would be strange to have character in fighting stance without anything to fight with, which makes it harder to draw background again.

I quite like this pose but I copied from other artwork so I feel wrong to copy others.

My quick sketch on Fiona, most of the detail are to make Fiona look different than Lilly. I chose clothes that make her look poorer compared to Lilly.

The face in the middle is the redrawn for version for Fiona, top left is for Lilly.

This is a sketch for the villain Jake. At first I give him a helmet so he would look more like bad guys like in Star Wars. I had a look at many medieval helmet, and I chose one which looked fantasy and bad ass. But I design my other characters without any armor so I feel this character should not have any armor as well.

background for fiona

Drawing background on top of other painting seems like cheating so I tried to make some changes to make it original. Drawing background is not what I do often so this painting is more like an experiment to me.

The building in the scene is from Venice I collage it with a castle that is half destroy. I didn't use the trees in the reference because post apocalypse shouldn't have any trees.