Character Designs

Thin Character

For my first character design, I wanted to do a toy box theme, and have my character look like children's toys. So, my thin character is a little doll.

This is a sheet full of my initial ideas for the doll girl, trying lots of different styles. I originally planned little details like having a key on her back, lots of frills and bows. However, in the end I decided that these details are complicated, unnecessary and would be too difficult to animate so I simplified her down greatly. 

I then decided on having her look like this which would be much more simple and easier for animation.  after drawing her out, she was equal to the size of 5 and a quarter coins, which would make it easier for me to do a character turn around and keep her proportions in check.

This is the rest of the character turn around. I found this extremely challenging, because whenever I've drawn characters in the past it's always been just a front view or side view, but to do angled drawings of her and a back view, and having them all the right proportions was very difficult, and there was things I had to change. I am however really happy with how it looks now.

This was a sheet of character expressions I did, to test how the character would look with different expressions and how they would work with the style of drawing I chose. I am very happy with how these look.

Fat Character

For the 'fat' character, sticking to my toy box theme, I wanted to have a big happy clown toy, as my character. For this I had the challenge of making the character appeal to children, because clowns can often be considered scary. I tried several different clown looks on this sheet but was still left unhappy with it.

This is when I considered combining the clown with an animal giving him a human body with an animal head. I tried rabbits and cats, but decided that the rabbit looked and fitted best with the clown character.

I then decided to see what I could do with the rabbit to make it look more like a clown. I tried different faces, and adding hair, but all didn't look quite right, and so I ended up deciding to stick with the design on the previous sheet.

With my decided character design, I started with the character proportions and the turn around. this character, including the ears reached to 6 and a quarter coins, making the rest of the turn around easier for me.

This was my original attempt at the turn around, where the front and back design looked okay but not the side. My main issue was his feet; because I decided to him large clown/bunny feet, this was difficult to get the right proportions in. I also found drawing a large character really challenging because it's not something I often draw, and so I had to learn as I went along.

This was my final turn around, where I improved various things with all three. The main changes that had to be made were to the side view, which after being given a lot of help and advice, looks a lot better now. Because the feet were such a problem for me, I had to change their design and make them smaller. I am very happy with how it looks now however.