Face Design

Bartender

Postage Note Miner

 I went for a messy style of colouring just as a test, looks interesting, but I'm not too sure its really going to work:

Postage Notes

Going for some sort of industrial age theme. I wanted to get some rough sketches down so I drew the ideas on postage notes, I'm going to try drawing over these in Photoshop and then colour them in:

Businessman

 Miner

 Stable Boy

Pixel Skeleton

 Been a long break since I've done any work, this is just a little something to kick back into it. Took me about 5 minutes and I've left it at original size.

Head of a Peasant

This is more testing without strong outline and more advanced shading:

Shape Research (Fantasy Character Ideas)

I took a step away from the tablet and went to join with my siblings to do some drawing on paper. It was actually quite useful to me. I remembered what one of my lecturers had told me in creating characters through simple shapes. I'm still keeping to a fantasy theme but I think this style could reach out to others themes:

Warrior's Head (No outline test)

This is a little test where I'm trying to eliminate the strong black outline in the drawing and adding extra lighting effects.

However, first I had to draw it with its outline, enlarged and then the brush thinned:

Then I coloured it in, replaced the black outline with the colours of the drawing and then developed and improved:

Rough Sketches (Fantasy Theme)

Alchemist (Idea for 2D game art)

A little more development...

Another character:

Item and tool design:

Some new tile designs:

Putting a couple of bits together:

2D scenery

For some scenery including my character I though I'd go for a similar style to games like 'Rayman Legends' by Ubisoft, using layers of backgrounds to make a diverse and appealing piece of scenery. This work in progress is a simple jungle scene, but I need to figure out what art style would work best with the character.

Final Tribesman Design

Taking the exact procedures that I had explained in the last post I created what can hopefully be the final draft of the character. This canvas is 256 by 256 pixels so I had to resize it  to the smaller size.

I resized the drawing by half with both smooth and hard edges:

Hard:

Smooth: 

Again! Again! AGAIN!

I think I may of finally cracked the case on the ideal figure for this character, observing this timeline we can see the frustrating though process:

On the most recent (far right) attempt, I have trimmed off some of the fur collar and already the character is making more sense and looking less cluttered. He has a bean-shaped body and I have given him stick arms again just like in the first design, which seems to work a lot better. So now I'm going to try a design with no fur collar and replace it with some sort of tooth necklace.

Even Smaller Tribesman

I'm drawing this character as if he could take place in some sort of low resolution side-scrolling game. He has too much detail on him so i didn't want to go low on the pixels, but at the same time give it a nice retro feel. So I went for a 128x128 canvas and I'm still trying to get him right:

 <- This is my original small Tribesman I made on a 256x256 canvas, which isn't too bad for resolution but I thought I would try a little smaller so its easier to make the tile sets for environment and item graphics.

Here is a smaller and less orientated design, his figure is all wrong however

 This one is another test but somehow I'm just not seeing any significant shape in this character

Here is just larger one, shrunk down and drawn over again, not much more successful than the previous try

Skyping and Sketching

Whilst I was Skyping with my girlfriend I took a sneak screenshot for a picture to draw (just to let you know, its not what it looks like she's doing). I later presented it to her, she loved it and she allowed me to post it on my blog:

Original screenshot

Rough line

Basic colour

Outlined colour

 Final: Normal

Final: Black and white

Final: Vintage