Character Development

Original Designs

Silvers changes

Me:I found this exercise really helpful in terms of developing a character with appeal. The sketches in red are Silver's adjustments as he talks me through the design.

Here's Silvers critique:

Silver: Looking at Hyde I think the image of the face (besides the coloured one) seems to be working better. In the coloured image it seems like the ladder affect is happening; with everything piling up on top of each other. The brow, the hat etc all seem very similar. Experiment more with size variation of the elements to create contrast. For example the hat can be a lot taller to contrast with brow. Maybe pull the jaw down. When constructing the whole body, try to understand how our guy looks naked so we are drawing through the shapes. Play around with how his clothes wrap around the body etc.

Now onto Jekyll. The guy (circled) has a lot of good stuff going on, which I feel you have lost a bit in the development of the design. The shape variations are a lot stronger in that design and you ave broken the shapes up beautifully. Just focus more on the consistency of volumes (i.e the arms) and how the overall construction is. Other wise good job.