For my Loopdeloop brief, I know I am going to be creating two characters to play off each other, and this is going to require some character design. Preproduction is not my strongest point, nor is character design, so I had a look at some inspiration on ways I could draw my characters. I specifically wanted to draw them side on, so I did look out for characters like this, but in the end I ended up grabbing inspiration from all sorts of artists, who were too inspiring to miss out!
Rob Bailey
Rob Bailey is an artist from Manchester (local!) who I found out about. Though a lot of his artwork is forward facing, I was just so inspired by the simplicity and beauty of his character designs. What I found brilliant was that he has no line work at all! I always have to draw my character's in pencil, then in pen and then fill these in, in Photoshop to create a somewhat decent character, but Rob just uses vector shapes! I found this so captivating that for my own characters I am going to try and not use line work either and see how they look! I also love his muted/pastel colours, as I think they look so complimentary together, which I want to take influence from also.
Riccardo Guasco
Riccardo Guasco is another artist who I found out about and want to take influence from. What I particularly enjoy about Riccardo's work is that for corners or joints, he uses sharp edges to emphasise where a part of the body would naturally bend. Every shape on his characters have a purpose and this is vivid and exciting to look at. I admire the sharpness of the nose, the knee and the elbows and I think I will try this technique to see if it works with my own characters. I am not sure it will look as nice as Riccardo's but it is worth a try!
I also think I am going to take influence from these .gif's that I found on Pinterest! These are very stylistic characters which have so much personality but don't even have facial features! The artist has over accentuated certain body parts to give them an extra animated approach, but not only that I love their colour schemes! I feel like I am attracted to a graphic design like aesthetic naturally, and I feel like these are so lovely to look at I hope I can use After Effects to create something which involves the same concept! These are also great references for a walk cycle, which I must remember to note down!
More Pinterest .gif influence!
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