Wednesday, 30 November 2016

initial practical sketches

as a starting point i feel pretty lost all around, however i know that my work is going to consist of character design so thats where im going to start. sketching out anything that comes to my head has helped the art block i feel like i was in, and i can actually make sketches and enjoy them.



i have made myself try new ways of sketching images by making very small scale drawings with the intention to get a greater understanding of motion and fantasy. as these small images all seem to have some form of character to them without even having any expressions, or visual aspects other than basig clothing outlines, i feel like this has helped me see more ways to approach characyter creation. 

in my years of drawing i have never made sketches like this and i find it refreshing to find something new that works. the characters seem full of life with the slightest detail and i would love to further this method and use it to make a vaster rance of characters.

i have notices that when i make pages of these sketches the ones on the same pages tend to follow similar themes. this encourages me to look how they could be variations of each other. as i usually struggle to experiment with media and process i find this to be an exception of the proces. i usualy work on one image and make that better, but i have allways struggled making the same image better through re drawing it, such as in different compositions.

i have allways been someone who preferes the first idea or sketch over anything that follows because that was the freshest idea at the time. but with these pages it alows me to experiment unintentionally without trying and it really helps my process.

problems with dissertation

i am struggling to come up with a solid question for the essay. i keep coming back to empathy and character but im not sure how i could synthasise work around that.
im not too sure where to start and the practical isnt realy informing my process at the moment as im just drawing random characters.

however i found that empathy towards characters means more than just reklating and caring for them, there are much stronger areas within that i think would be interesting to look at.

i have found first hand that relationships with fictional characters in games are becoming more and more common and i feel like this is a very interesting topic within empathy to look at. how empathy and sympathy can be given to someone that isnt real.

Monday, 28 November 2016

small sketches to more development

some quick ish designs that allowed me to quickly have small studies on clothing and femanine less generally sexualised designs
the process of repeating body shapes in order to create a range of designes really does make the process of desugning much simpler, without the need of making the anatoy right each time you want to draw makes life much easier to work with.

Thursday, 24 November 2016

culture observations consideration

my first tutorial on my practical work so far, i have been told that looking into culture and traditions may be somewhat helpful in been able to use and appreiate clothing designs and living features. when talking about culture i can look at:
-clothing
-pattern
-material
-enviroment
-traditions
-personalities

all of these make important features within character design as all of these helo create in depth characters. if using these correctly, i would be able to tell the story of characters through the image and design of them on their own.

Friday, 18 November 2016

key links

http://web.csulb.edu/~lswigart/sfftd.html

Thursday, 17 November 2016

initial idea for what a practical response could be

as im not sure where my essay should go, its creating difficulties on what practical work to do.

as i have established a want to look into character empathy, my initial thoughts are to create a small series of characters, each with different stories following each of the generic character roles. such as the hero, the villan, the love interest etc. however at the moment this idea seems pretty simplistic.

i will look into how i can make these characters less steriotypical, whilst making their roles maybe a mystery and create a survey questioning what people think the roles of each characters are based on appearence

initial proposal-

edit: looking back at this my idea to use empathy and relation to character alone may not be the strongest idea, i plan to change this and recreate the proposal with a more defined idea in relation to my dissertation when its more finalised.