Week 15 + 16 - Reflective Journal

This week I wanted to narrow down the character's face and hair. I tried out various colours and ideas of how magic might affect her appearance, as well as a "spooky" undead look that may reveal something about the character as a supernatural being. I eventually settled on her looking like a living human, with eyes that glow when she uses magic.

I also began working on a consistent background design for my submission, trying to incorporate the moon phase pattern from the poncho into the design.

I wanted the character to be older, appearing wise and experienced. I gave her greying hair, and plan to give her some wrinkle definition in the final design.

After finalising the poncho design, I painted a neater layout of the patterns, as well as breaking down colours and the shapes seen on the fabric. Doing a rough drawing of the poncho being worn also helped with plans on how I would draw my final design, as I played with the warp tool to make the design flow correctly with the drawing.

In preparation of my peer review I started finalising how my pages would look, and laying out my work in a way that was easy to read and detailed.

Poncho Page

Clothing Concepts Page

Full Character and Clothing Details Page

I plan to ask for feedback on my page layouts so far, as well as colours used and general thoughts on the coherency of my work.