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Main character concept sheets

 Main character concept sheets


These are my first thumbnail sketches of the main character my inspiration was fisherman/ coastal region that’s why I kept the overalls in the majority of the designs and you will see that brought through on the other designs. This is also the origin point for the missing limb - initially I was going to leave them with a stump and not replace it with a prosthetic but I changed my mind.

Here are my cleaned up variations I added in the poncho idea both based on the fact that they live in a coastal region where they get a lot of sunlight so I wanted to cover their shoulders as a shield from UV rays. This sheet is where I had the idea of the mask. I imagined them to come from a culture formed in fear of the microplastic threat and treat it as a supernatural force and so they created evil warding masks to protect themselves. 
These are my designs based on Holly's thumbnails, I chose this one to redraw because was the most different from my own. I liked the full covered look as well as the inclusion of patterning on the clothing as well as the use of layered clothing in the first place. The first drawing is just a straight redraw in a new pose holding their gun. The second one I took away on of their eyes and gave them trousers instead of a skirt. The next few are where the differences really start to show; I add a backpack and change up the hairstyle and bandanna, replace the outer most layer with a sash, turn the outer layer into an overcoat with ribbons and a sash holding gear.

This set of iterations are based on Damien's designs for the main character these are a fairly simple evolution. It started off with me changing the shirt and then the patches on the overalls, the hat and then I went back to my poncho idea taking away the hat and adding more patches. This set up the design I ended up landing on.

This is the design I ended up settling on, it has my favourite aspects of each design within it. It has the the mask and the prosthetic leg from my design, the pose, weapon and outfit from my take of Damien's designs and the hairstyle face and ribbons from my take on Holly's work.


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