Title: Character Design: Oathkeeper Chronicles
Year: 2018
Overview: For this project, I had made a set of character sheets for characters of a novel I have been developing visually, mentally, and on paper for a few years. For each character, I had included the characters in idle and action poses, in alternative costumes, and a set of emotes, as well as a basic character bio.
Audience: My main audience for the piece was young adults since it was the same target audience for the original story.
Goals: The goals of this piece were to give the readers/audience a clearer picture of each of the characters. This also included myself so that I can create better descriptions and story for the characters. Basically, meaning this also acted as a way to further develop them.
Research: For this though, it was necessary to first do research on character sheets, mainly being what I needed to include and what I should be using for the design. For this, I had found a few different examples that showed the necessary information. This included needing to add in the previously mentioned items I felt needed to be required, as well as a layout I could base my work from, that being the concept sheet for the character Elsword: Rune Slayer as shown below.
RSConceptT.jpg. 2013, KoG. Elwiki, https://elwiki.net/w/File:RSConceptT.jpg. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018.
From there, I then started to work on sketches I could use as placeholders as well as how to set up poses for the main illustrations. The sketches included my plans for the layout, as well as the poses I wanted for my characters.
Digital: I then proceeded to take reference photos of my own for poses and work on the illustration parts in Photoshop. This meant painting of each of the characters and adding on their hairstyles and costumes. I also later on did research on different faces and made changes to the faces of a majority of the characters I had already drawn, as well as make changes to the costume for certain characters so that it seemed a bit more unique.
Once the illustrations were done, I brought them into InDesign so that I could then place them in the layout and add the type to each sheet. I also used different colors and fonts for each one so that I could further personalize each of the characters.
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