Summer Project

Over the summer holidays we were given a task to come up with a design for a character for a post-apocalyptic game.

My first idea was for my game environment to be set in the future, with more medicines been used but still less people using contraception.
 I had an idea of over-population been the big issue which causes the apocalypse, because of this over-population a war starts because of everyone fighting to survive and trying to get food and water. With this war, riots break out, hoodies roam the streets and looters raid the shops.
From this idea I noted down a few features I could give me character which would match the setting of the game.
Character: Dark          Mysterious
                   Chavy        Stubble
                   Rough       Hidden Face
                   Frowning   Evil Look

 After writing down these features I decided to sketch an idea of what my character could look like, this is it;

The above picture is the reference I used for drawing the head of my character, after drawing this main outline for the head I added a few of the characteristics to make him look how I wanted him to. 

Such as adding the long hair to cover his eyes occasionally, the frowning eyebrows to make him look quite evil and rough looking, and a stubble to make him look even more rough looking.






After drawing the head out I decided to start colouring it in Photoshop, I scanned the drawing on to my laptop and drew the outline onto a new canvas, I then added the base colours of the head, and then started to add the shading to the face, to give it depth, I then added the detail to the head of my character such as the shading of the eyes. 

After colouring the head I thought of texturing it to make the face look more realistic, I found a picture on the internet and copied it onto Photoshop, I then positioned it to fit the face of my character then overlapped it onto the head to show the texture. Once I had finished, I was unhappy with the finished picture because if felt the head was too thin and didn't look very good, I then stretched the head to make it wider, I was then happy with the end result, the picture on the left shows my finished face.




I thought next I had to draw out my head but as a side view,This is how my drawing turned out for the side view, I was quite happy with it but thought it could be improved as there was a few things which I thought needed changing, but I decided to scan it straight onto Photoshop and change the bits I was unhappy with it whilst colouring it on Photoshop.


The picture above on the right, is the design after I had finished it in Photoshop. As well as colouring the face, I decided to texture it as well, also to make it look more realistic, after finishing it I was happy with the finished picture as I thought it was a big improvement from the original drawing.



Once I finished my head I had to think of what I wanted my character to wear, my first idea was a hoodie so that when he has his hoods up he looks hidden and evil looking, I then drew a couple of pictures of hoodies, one wear it was the hood but with no face showing just shadowed, then the other with part of his face showing so it looks like he's just hiding his eyes.

I then wanted to draw these on Photoshop and add some colour, so that was the next thing I did;

This is my finished hoodie in Photoshop, as you can see I decided to colour it quite dark, this is because it  adds to the look of my character been dark and evil. I decided to do a plain hoodie as it fits my character into the environment, so it blends in with the other character within the game.












I then went straight to drawing the whole body of my character, one with hood up and one with it down. 

I added plain black trousers and trendy pumps, I did this because I wanted to make my character look trendy, and blend in with the environment. 

After looking back at both my designs, I was extremely happy with the character with the hood down but not with the other, I felt the hood didn't look very good or realistic, so I decided to start it again and took some inspiration from Assassins creed.

                                                                         

Here was my new design for my character with his hood up, I feel it made a big difference on my character and looks loads better then it did, this design covers his eyes which gives him the mysterious/suspicious look which is how I wanted my character to look. Its also look a bit more realistic shaped as the previous one didn't look right.