more character design

so we've still been debating over this character, a few ideas have been flying around and contrasting with each other.

should it be a man?
should it be a sort of energy?
should the character be represented by something?

its part of the girls imagination so really we could do anything... thats the problem.

it has taken us way too long to decide on what we are going to do.

we have chosen to go for a male character.

i drew a design but i cannot for the life of me find it anywhere. so i will give a verbal description.
Tall, well built (maybe just a little over weight) black male with a moustache. He is the park attendant (film set in a park). he wears a green jumpsuit with boots and has a matching green hat. He enjoys nothing more than having time to himself to think and to sweep the leaves from the path.

so i drew this character up, joe then asked me to give it to iradia so he could clean it up in photoshop etc.
these are some of the awesome drawings he came up with



this was he first hand drawn, he then went and put it into photo shop and came up with this.



i really like the fact he's used colour and texture in this one, the texture almost helps in a way to imagine the final thing.


so while he was doing this i went ahead and started making character sheets for our two characters. (i apologise for the quality)





i purposely chose these expressions and actions because they are similar to what will be in the final film. This goes for the following drawings of our female character.







after i saw what Iradia had done, i thought i would give it a shot in photoshop myself. so using the new character sheets i had drawn up i came up with this...



then i did something similar to Iradia's and added a texture to the image.



i was quite happy with my results, for someoen who doesnt really use photoshop too often or a graphics tablet i was pleased with what i created. I know they are quite si ple and nothing too technically brilliant but i think it shows everything it needs too. the finilised drawings of the character obviously and then gives a good idea of colour and a brief look at the type of texture that good be used on our final model.