Iterative (Character) Design

I downloaded some software for my scanner, so it's doing a bit better now. Here's the few drawings I've done recently. Oh! I found someone with Strings of Fate archived, so you can definitely see that working its way into the Mao design.

This is before I found the archive, so you can see I'm still struggling quite abit with getting the exact facial definition I want. Otherwise this character sheet does what I aimed for, lining up proportion across the different viewpoints. I still have a problem doing the front facing drawing.

Then I put random clothes on them. I don't suspect she'll be running around in the second outfit too often. Or with the back arched so crazy far back. I was inspired by the warcraft night elves. The kimono is cute, though.

Anyways, on to progress!






If you read Strings of Fate, you can see definitely how much more it reflects those facial features. The heads in the middle and right drawing are pretty much me looking at the comic and copying it over... but I do feel much better about drawing her without a guide now.

The bottom left picture is a redrawing of the "Draw your character getting soaked in ice cold water" assignment. Fun!




Here's the corresponding update to Tiamat. I ported over the style from the Mao drawings above, and I think they mesh okay now. I would like to do it all in the first aesthetic I used, but this one is usable and already doable. I can't consistently draw the other style, nor do I have any idea about how to do females at all.

His hair is pretty crazy. I might try to cut my hair like that.

So this is how my style for this project (code-named Journey for now) is progressing. It'll be interesting to come back in a couple months and see how it has changed.

Look how much more sure the lines look already...