Monday 3 October 2011

Character Design: Different Mr. Incredibles...

I struggled a little to get my head around last weeks lesson but here's what I drew anyways:

The first task was to draw a character we were given using one of the three shapes used in character design, but it had to be different to the original. My character was Mr. Incredible and I thought I'd use triangles:

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The above was my first attempt but Justin showed me *in the bottom two drawings here* how it should be tackled.

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Below is my final attempt. It's still not right but I didn't really know how to make it better.
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The next thing to try was to really simplify the character. Below is my attempt but as much as I quite like it, it really doesn't look any different.
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Justin used the example of Hello Kitty as something that's completely simplified and below is my attempt at trying to capture it. 
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Again, I didn't really do so well and the tutorial ended shortly after this, but hopefully I'll be able to do much better work this week!


2 comments:

  1. Its good to be challenged, i always think.Its especially hard to create an iconic image, stripping the character down to its essentails (about as anatomically correct as a lego man). I think your last two images are getting there. They still need limbs though -they are still essential to the character. South park is also a good example of iconic character design.

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  2. I definitely agree! You wouldn't learn anything if you weren't challenged so thank you for the feedback! Also, I can't believe I didn't think of South Park as an example! That'll be a great help so thank you! :D

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