Week 4 - Character sheets

This week I finished  off the design for Thumbelina. I started off the week with gesture poses for last weeks design. But the did not turn out very well, I found myself struggling with the design, I'd lost some of the whimsy of Thumbelina that I had with previous designs.

Since I was between two designs I decided to merge aspects of them. I found a lot of the fun of my previous design came from the hair, so that was the biggest change.

Design Development

Feeling better about my design I moved onto colour. I wanted to keep her fairly harmonious with her base colours being from barleycorn (as the book states that she was born from a barely corn.) With a shot of colour for her sash, as she'll use that to help her carry objects, and navigate her surroundings.

Colour scheme 4 was chosen

With the design set I put her to a general pose for rendering.

I also had another go at gesture posing, however this time I had some reference from life drawing this week to go on. Denzil Forde (portfolio) also let me scan his drawings to use as reference as well.

Pose from life drawing with notes

Thumbelina fixing her dress with Denzil Forde's image as reference

I put my gestures, and improved expression sheets onto a rough character sheet for Thumbelina.

Though I will be adding more to Thumbelina later, now's a good time to move on to other characters. As I've spent a lot of time on my main character I'd like to complete 2 characters this coming week.