Monday, January 28, 2013

"character design" attempt continued



Update on this project. they're pretty messy, but its ok!
edit- I unexpectedly got a lot of positive feedback on this design from my professor. WEEEEHOOOOO!

Monday, January 21, 2013

"Character Design" (aka Huge Struggle)


My first attempt at character design, for a character design class..... D': basically, our class was given a story and a list of characters to choose from- I chose William, and was given these parameters- younger brother of Anne, martial arts master of Wing Chung, 5 Animal Kung Fu, Crane form and Dragon forms (....), Buddhist monk, in Western America in 1865-1869 working on the transcontinental railroad... and.... planning revenge. And gained supernatural powers by praying to Vajrapani ( I can only assume Enlightenment, but that doesn't make sense with the rest of his parameters, so I ignored that bit.)
This was incredibly hard for me- I've always struggled with being creative, so this was a very very very unpleasant experience. But, its my first time, and I think that for all the struggle and pain, I turned out with something decent