Initial Sketches

I've started off the project's character designs with some sketching from imagination to get me in to the flow of things/ get some ideas out of my head and on to paper.

Hero sketches

I've been looking to my research of hero/heroine archetypes a lot for inspiration.  I'm mainly focusing on "The Warrior," "The Professor," "The Lost Soul" and "The Boss," "The Spunky Kid," "The Free Spirit."

Villain sketches

These were a lot of fun to do.  I really like the idea of having some sort of ogre creature as the villain.  Although I'm going to have to work on giving them a sinister sort of quality in order to answer the "atypical villainous quality" specification of the brief.

Sidekick sketches

This is probably the character I'm struggling with most.  Originally I wanted to make up my own creature, however the concept of fantasy creatures like fairy-type-things and dragons are becoming more appealing.  I was also quite keen to have the companion be a small, cute and playful creature, however I've been toying with the idea of them being a creature who the hero uses to travel on like a horse.  Regardless, as the brief specifies the companion must compliment the hero, I want to wait until the hero's design is finalised before the companion's is.



Next up, silhouettes!