Character Design homework!

I realized I haven't updated in almost a month D: School work has picked up and final projects are upon us. But I haven't forgotten you sketchblog! Here's a recent project for my Character Design class. I have the three characters I've designed in combat together in some ancient ruins. Sooner or later I will post the colored version! Sooner rather than later this time!

Character Design Homework!

Done in the order I drew them in! Woo! I'm having a lot of fun with this assignment. The homework was to pick a videogame and draw three new characters for it. I chose Soul Calibur because I wanted to draw realistic looking characters with weapons. I was torn between this and making new cousins for the game Katamari but I know what I chose is more of what my professor wants. I'm not finished yet! I was just so excited with what I've done so far that I've decided to post in-progress work. I get to color a few of these in class next week.

Added: I've uploaded all of them :D For my male character I was trying to make him look like a viking but it's really hard to do without adding a beard. I can see how I strayed from the viking look. Oh well, I'm still happy with how he turned out :)

Concept 2 Sketch 6

For my last sketch for concept 2 I tried draw all the characters together. I need to work hard on becoming more comfortable with drawing more than one character. I feel like It turned out pretty well. I can see a few problems with anatomy right now and it was really hard to draw Areva short and still look in proportion compared to the taller characters. Besides a few technical issues I feel like I showed their personalities pretty well. Good luck, Jess! :D

Concept 2 Sketch 5

Here's a room I drew :O It's a piano room. I imagine this is the room in my character Jame's house. It looks a little wonky. I think it's because I keep taking pictures with my web cam and I'm never sure if I'm slightly tilting it. I need a scanner .____.

Concept 2 Sketch 4

I never draw buildings :X I just learned perspective about two weeks ago. Overall I think I did ok with it. Drawing this I was really excited by how it was turning out but once I was done I realized everything is slightly tilted :/ I like style of the building at least. I looked at a bunch of houses in England while drawing this. Also, this is for me and Jess's project together. I figured one of the characters I drew before could live in this house, or something like it.

Concept 2 Sketch 3

Third character! Weoo! I wanted to have this character to be exotic, I researched some Thai names and I've decided to name her Areva. It's extremely hard for me to name any character. Whenever I play a videogame and I have to create a name for my character it will take me hours to think of JUST the right name. I feel like names give a certain personality to characters and if you already have established character traits and a clear idea of the character it can be extremely hard trying to fit a name to character. Names add another flavor to characters that can either enhance their traits or clash against it. That's how I've always felt about it anyways. I've decided to call my second character James and my first character Louis. Now it will be much easier to explain. I wanted to have a character who was working for James prior to Louis agreeing to work for him. I had a lot of ideas but I was sure I wanted a female character.

Concept 2 Sketch 2

Here is my second character! I have a pretty clear idea of what type of character he would be, he would be a smooth talker, very confident, he can come across as elegant and sincere but there's an underlining dodgyness and coldness to him. As far as physical appearance goes he is handsome but slightly rough looking and has a scar going up his left eyebrow. I imagine him to be something of a high class criminal and notorious for being able to get any item for any price. Although, he is a criminal I see him as being extremely intelligent and cultured. I imagine his apartment to be full of books and objects from all across the world, but it would be very small and messy and ofcourse it would have his piano. I think I would want to have this character somehow stumble across my first character by way of one of them playing. I think I would like to have this character hear my first character playing the violin and take interest in his first, his skill with the violin, and secondly his strange personality. I can see my first character being very cold and somewhat rude to this character and have no patience for this characters flashy personality. I really need to start giving names to my characters... Anyways, I can see this character, becoming interested in my first character for some reason, whether he sees him as a financial opportunity, he genuinely wants to help him out or that he's bored and its entertaining to him to have someone around him that isn't fooled by his charm. This character has friends in high places since he is paid considerable amounts of money to hunt for items for the rich. I see my first character as a noble possibly but living on his own and very poor. I think I would have this character bribe him by saying he could make him famous as a musician but he would have to work for him first. My first character is stubborn, and is very proud and would never associate himself with a criminal and one who infuriates him, but he eventually gives in. I've got a great idea for one more character and then I think I will do some buildings and sets.