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Character Designs

Hello! These are a collection of my Character Design work over the years, starting with Animal and Creature to Human Designs, followed by Shape and Colour inspired Characters. Each category starts with my most recent, down to the oldest.   

Most Recent Work:

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Animal and Creature Character’s

The Wild Campers:
These are three concept designs for characters looking at a Boy Scout Theme called the Wild Campers. On the left is Bear who would be the leader of the group, confident brave and always prepared for anything. In the middle we have Fox, who is your typical jumps at the smallest noise type character. He is there to support his friends but needs a lot of protection and comfort in return. On the right we have Croc who is friendly, brave but not the smartest of creatures. He can make you laugh but don't ask him anything intellectual. 
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Full Character Line Up for 'A Campers Guide Concept'
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Bear Character Turn around sheet followed by a grumpy character pose. This one was harder to design as I wanted to draw him in an emotion you wouldn't except to see that character in, just to create experiment with the personality and explore all corners. 
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Work Created 2021
The T-Rex Who Wanted to Paint:
This is a children's story concept based on a friendly looking dinosaur who's dream it is to be an artist. Its very common with young minds being shut down by people who think that you cam't make a career out of art yet this is one of the most important factors in the everyday world. I want this story to tell them that its okay to dream and its okay to live that dream.
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Above is the main character concept design, in different colour styles followed by a secondary character below in black and white followed by a fully coloured version.  
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A Collection of Pieces Character:
The design below is an experimental piece looking at making a character out of 'a collection of pieces'. I gathered some objects in my house and some from online and pieced them all together to see what I could make from it. This was a fun concept to work with and to create some animated tests with too. 
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Character made from a mental bucket and old fashioned clock. 
Penguin Sketch (2020)
Based on a concept of a penguin wanting to fly. 
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Creature Design and Experimental Digital Painting made from testing out different brushes in Procreate(2020)

Stylised Zombie character:
This design was looking at a top heavy character, experimenting with different colour pallets and trying to give the design a very bright a pop art feel with the dark background to contrast it.
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Work Created October 2020

Little Creatures​

Experimentation with shapes and features to create unique little creature like characters.
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Work Created April 2020

A Sloth, a Shark and a Raccoon

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Work Created Between April and May 2020

Octopus Designs

After designing the first octopus (on the left), I wanted to see how I could push the design and change features on the creature to suggest different personalities and change the character. 
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Work Created May 2020
Bear 

Bear is a character designed as part of my Final Major Project at University and is part of a storyline called Thomas and Bear. The story behind Bear is that he was found by a family outside their home in a cardboard box and they then took him in as part of the family where he grew up with his now brother Thomas who is the same age. Below is the character sheets I created, facial expressions and original moodboards which inspired the character.
Work Created Between January and March 2020

​Goat Character
The goat design was an experimental character where I constructed a moodboard of different designs and styles which helped inspire the shape, quirk and details of the character. 
Work Created Between November and December 2019

Dogs with Jobs
As part of a competition entry with the theme ‘Dogs With Jobs’ I had loads of ideas for different designs, so I decided to create a few of them. Below is the French Bulldog Chef, Builder Bulldog, Apple Technician Dog and Drag Queen Poodle.
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Work Created Between November and December 2019

Human Characters

A Pirates Life for Me:
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Initial Sketches and Reference Used
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Sketch Development
Colour Development 
Created March 2021

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Character Illustrations:
Most of my work usually uses black outlines to define the character and all their features. During the third lockdown, I have been trying to work away from this habit and improve my digital drawing and painting skills. These two characters have no outlines except for details on the face, but have become a style that I am really proud of and two designs I feel best represent my current and upcoming work with another step in the right direction to the design improvements and progression that I want to keep making. 
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Designs based off real people and created March 2021


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The Strawberry Girl:
Nothing motivates me more than seeing the progression that I have made in my work. When I found this old design from 2018, I knew I had to recreate it in my current style to see how this has changed and the results didn't disappoint. I am really proud of the progression I have made in the last few years, and cant wait to recreate this again down the line. 
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Original Design on the left from 2018, Design on the right was created in January 2021
Zombie Girl:
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Character Sketches:
Experimenting with different sketch designs, looking at shape, facial expression and showing a personality through one rough pose. 
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Designs Created January 2021
Allien Invasion:
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Using more References when designing
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Thomas
Thomas is an 11 year old boy who lives with his (adopted) brother, bear and loves all things space. He is shy yet very friendly and an intelligent person. 
Work Created Between January 2020 - March 2020
Evie
Work Created between September 2019 - November 2019
First Character Digital Painting ​
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Work Created September 2020

Shape and Colour Characters

Bug Like Characters

Looking at how different round shapes and colour can create a range of different characters with the same style yet look very different.
Work Created in March 2020

Animal Characters

After experimenting with the bug creatures, I then decided to look at using the same technique but with animals this time.
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Work Created in March 2020

Adding More Detail to the Style 

I then decided to try and add more detail to this idea by making a pirate crab and snail in the mud. I also wanted to create a very simple background to compliment the design and help tell a simple story. 
Work Created in March 2020
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