Main character of third year - Seba

Hey there, this is the blog post I've been dreading the most as I'm sure it's going to be the longest post. I wont bother putting up the research along with it as there's quite a lot of it :P. The idea I came up with was a story about a guy who was part of a tribe in a lost jungle, he is then chosen as a sacrifice to their god but the god decides to be merciful and keeps the male character. As the way he gets captured is within a crystal he is in stasis. He is then awoken by the heroine 80 years afterwards when a great plague has taken the land and killed most of the people within. The idea was going to be made into a game for my 3rd year project and it's going to be called 'Crystal Clear'. The idea was to create a beautifully made word and this was what the game would be concentrating on, visuals. I designed both characters but one more that the other since the game was going to be in first person so the 2nd character would be seen more. Here the first design I made for the female character. She's meant to be a witchdoctor like character.

This was the first design that I then worked on:

I made a few designs and then choose 3 of the middle top row ones. I then started to create a few hair designs and an initial face design:

I began with that hair style because I liked it the most and I attempted to stick to a style that the artist Mike Henry (his deviantart page is here! www.zatransis.deviantart.com/) draws in as I truly love his art style. I then decided to change my character due to my friends artwork who is also on this project, Sean Nash (http://wwwseannash.blogspot.co.uk/), and then I veered away from this kind of style and went for a slightly more realistic style.

 I began with this and then attempted to draw over it digitally. 

 I went with this kind of style in the end but felt the bottom left was my favourite so I elaborated on it. 

 I went with a nicer colour to the skin and more feathers with a younger and cuter looking face. I felt this design worked a lot better because it worked a lot better than the above designs. I liked the idea of feathers behind her ears and the ear plug. I then attempted to make designs for the rest of her.

I designed a few tattoo layouts for my character also, which came out as a mixture of Celtic, Maori, Native American, Aztec and a futuristic kind of style. I decided to go for an aztec/maori kind of style for her so I went with the far left design as I felt it most suited her body and wasn't too bulchy. 

I also decided to design a few of the favourite designs I had from the designs earlier in the post. I decided out of all of them that the left was my favourite as it was the best colour and design for the character.

 then deciding the top half was a little more difficult as I was drawn between the first and the middle drawing so as I pitched it to the group they all agreed I should combine both of these designs as this would work very well. And it turns out it did.

This was then the final design, I also designed a mask and spear for her also to go with the style of tribal. I felt that this design has worked out rather well and in making the 3D model at the moment it also works very well in 3D. It's been quite an adventure with this character and I believe she's helped me in becoming a better digital artist as I forced myself to draw digitally and it's help me get better. This is the first project that I've drawn digitally from scratch as I've always struggled in that before. I had to scan a hand drawn image in first then draw over it but this time I drew the full body character from scratch. hopefully this will be the first of many digital project I have! There are many other pages of design for this character but I chose the best and most essential pages :)

Thanks for reading :)