Character Design: Further Facial Studies

Taking into account the stylisation of characters

Hero - Square

Sidekick - Circles

Villain - Triangles/Squares

Character Design: Basic Shapes and Body Proportions

With the idea that the basic shapes help express a characters personality. Whilst body expressions can help the emotion of characters, i.e body language.


Basic Face Shapes


Hero - Squares



Sidekick - Circles



Villain - Squares, Triangles



These are developed further in Character Design: Further Facial Studies


Body Proportions and Expressions

Character Design: Stylisation

Dedicating this day strictly towards Character Design, I plan to push out a number of blog posts today, specifically:

• Ideas on Stylisation


• Further Facial Studies


• Body Proportions

In the next few days I'll hopefully plan to design overall body designs, as well as props and alternate costume designs for the characters. As well as push onto colouring and style guides later on.


Stylisation


After some research into the various styles and media which supports it. I've chosen to create the characters in-between a simple and broad art style.

My primary inspirational artists are Bruce Timm, Gene Hazelton, Mike Mignola and Chuck Jones
My Secondary inspirational media is Batman: Animated Series (1992 ), Looney Toons (1950-1986 version), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and Hellboy,

Narrative: Scrapped concepts