FINAL ARTIST BOOK MOCK UP

After I had created my final artist book pages, I decided to PhotoShop them onto a picture I had taken of one of the artist book that I own. I wanted to see how they would look in the full context and I think that these images elevate the individual pages into a fully realised …

FINAL ARTIST BOOK PAGES

Now that I had all of my illustrations completed including my concept art, I began to construct and organise them together with text to create my final artist book pages. The text in these pages describes the way I went about the process, small introductions to the characters and commentary on the process overall. I …

DEVELOPING CONCEPT ART – PROCESS AND FINAL PIECES

As well as my final character illustrations, I wanted to create some concept art inspired by the ideas I had generated at the beginning of this project for an original narrative. This for me was to show how well my character design would fit into their context. I decided to keep the concept of these …

ARTIST BOOK PLAN

To go alongside my final character designs and put them into a context with a more direct audience focus and purpose, I have decided to create an artist book to show fellow young creatives how I experienced the character design process. I think as an artist it is important to have references to look to …

THE FINAL IMAGES

Below are the final illustrations I edited and rendered from my previous posts showing the process pieces. These illustrations are the ones I feel show their character in the best way and show off their design and all of the different features the most. For Nova these are the two pieces shown in the process …

DEVELOPING FINAL ILLUSTRATIONS – NOVA

When developing Nova's final character design illustrations the main focus was making them expressive and exploring more dynamic posing than my previous sketches of this character. I felt that in comparison to Skylar's character, his personality was a little less obvious without a description therefore this is something I really wanted to try and improve …

DEVELOPING FINAL CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS – SKYLAR

Once I had finalised Skylar's appearance, body language and colour palette I began working towards developing more refined illustrations that would represent his final design state. These illustrations focussed a lot on the posing, and making him more 'realistic' in terms of portraying him as a character that embodied everything I had imagined. I again …

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND PROCESS – NOVA

Following the same process as with Skylar's design, Nova's was a little less obvious in terms of capturing his personality through his features alone. Skylar's characteristics were the inspiration for Nova, making Nova the opposite was the goal. Nova, as of yet did not have a feature or characteristic that stood out as much as …

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND PROCESS – SKYLAR

To develop onwards with my character design, now that I had a beginning idea of what Skylar's appearance and colour theory - through the instagram poll research- was going to be, I needed to work out the rest of his design. I wanted to explore his clothing, body language and different ways that I could …

SSP2 – ARTBOOK INSPIRATION

My outcome for this project is going to be an art book with character design sheets, concept art and sketch progress. To get some inspiration of how other artists create their art books, I looked at two art books that I own, and how character design is documented in them. The first art book I …