The first is from my Advanced Character Design class, which really pushed me to explore different illustration styles and character types. My personal style still leans towards the realistic side but I did find it extremely helpful and have been continuing to experiment since then with proportions and figures. The two characters are from a 'revamped' version of Little Red Riding Hood where a girl from an American Indian tribe must rescue her Grandmother from a skin walker. With the help of a boy from a group of Norse sailors, who has witnessed the creature lurking around their encampment, the two embark on a journey to defeat the skin walker and save their respective families.
The costumes are inspired by a combination of Iroquois/Maori for the girl and Scandinavian/Scottish for the boy. Despite there being a huge language barrier between characters to overcome should this story to pan out in the long run, I will probably continue researching to develop it's basis in the historical drama of two distant cultures that had a short lived but interesting time together.
The next two are character design pieces from Advanced Book Illustration. I won't get into as much detail on this one, suffice to say it's a very muddled story, but I will say that it was part of my branching out process in style. The original sketches of the little guy with a fish on his head were also from Advanced Concept Art and I liked him so much, I decided to build my project around him in Advanced Book Illustration. Even though I never worked through the plot entirely, I did enjoy fleshing out the characters. The frog-like woman in the final image is a Swamp Witch inspired by the character Aughra from Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.
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