Bringing all my design work together

Creating a few model sheets 



After I had gotten all my feedback on the my different character clothing styles, hairstyle variations and colour palettes it was time for me to take all that information on board and move onto making my model sheets. This was a part of the project I was excited to work on as I was looking forward to get to draw the different angles of my candy characters characters and finally start to finalise their individual looks. I had each of the most popular variations chosen by my peers and family written down so that I could create my characters model to those chosen specifications and just decided crack on with it.

As I had done everything digitally previously it made this part of the process fairly simple and a lot quicker than it would have been if I had done it traditionally which was great so I was able to start producing the side, front and back views of my characters fairly easily. I went over all the different model sheets I had looked at previously as reference to make sure that my own model sheets were to a similar sort of style and just kept on working but I did eventually come up against a bit of a block. I actually a unhappy with how one of my characters was looking as I just didn't feel like he looked right somehow and so, knowing that It would bug my if I didn't do something I decided to tweak his design a little.

Original Leequorice design idea

The image above is of what Leequorice looked like before I decided to tweak him as this was the combination of all the most popular variations of his design. So I went back through what I had drawn to see if I could mix and match or swap out anything that would change his look and, after having a fiddle about in Photoshop, I realised that it was his hair that was the issue, and that he actually looked a lot better with one of the other hairstyles I had drawn so I decided to edit this part of the design and change it around a bit. I know in the industry that artists aren't really supposed to tweak decided designs but honestly this is my project after all and I really love these characters and I just felt like I had to change this little bit of the design for my own state of mind more than anyone elses as I just didn't think it suited his character and so that's why I did it.

So once I had got that issue sorted and out of the way I was able to continue working on my model sheets and get them finalised. Honestly I am really pleased with how they have turned out as all the chosen variations seem to have worked well together and I feel my character personalities are really showing through even through just a still pose which is what I really wanted to try and capture so I am happy with that. I have popped the final model sheets for my characters down below and now that I have finished this I need to get on with working on my final piece.