Final Version of Original Character

(The quality looks lower because for some reason I couldn't get the computer to cooperate with me and get my image on here with the original file, so I had to print screen paste in paint and crop it down)

Work in Progress for Original Character

Unfortunately, I didn't stop to think to take a work in progress screenshot of my original character until I got the worksheet informing me to do so, and by that time the character was well done and I was almost done with the background.

Here's a small picture of my mad scientist without the background. (His nose is a little bit hard to see, but it's there)

I got to the idea to creat a mad scientist while I began my bookworm character. I started to make eyelids for my bookworm's eyes and they came out slanted, looking a bit evil. I could have easily rotated them to fit my bookworm's nice demeanor but I really liked the evil look, and a mad scientist was just the first thing that came to mind.

The whole image kind of just flowed from there.

Some of the problems I came across were getting the face and boots to the right shape. Apparently I'm not good at moving anchor points on shapes because I kept getting weird overlapping loops and other strange things while I was just trying to make the bottom of his face smaller. The shoes actually worked out a bit more easily but I still got odd overlapping loops.

Sometimes the layering was a bit annoying and it took forever to get the shapes to where I wanted them by "sending them back", etc, but it wasn't hard to fix.

Thumbnail Sketches for Original Character

These are the doodles that I sketched out for my original characters. I know some of them are incomplete but I really wasn't feeling those characters.

Research & Ideas for Original Character

I had a lot of different ideas for my original character. This assignment just instinctively took me to what I usually doodle, and in this case it was clouds, robots, and other various things.

A few things that I thought would be interesting for my character would be a few differently designed robots or a book worm.

These are sort of what I had in mind for the book worm idea:

http://tinyurl.com/7yxuhya

http://tinyurl.com/6rz9b7k

As for the robot, the image was just in my mind's eye ;)

Illustrator Abstract Version of Schiele's "The Poet"

Rosie Hardy

http://artistaday.com/?p=12969

I've always loved photography. I can't exactly explain why but I love the different ways photographers manipulate light and other elements to capture something beautiful.

Rosie Hardy has two self portraits on the page above and I absolutely love them. Especially the one above. I adore how she used a partially underwater stance.