After gathering some of my reference last week, I now focused on selecting the most appropriate reference and photographs for my moodboard. I have reassembled this moodboard many times, until I got to one I was fairly happy with. The point here was to have it focused more around the character I was deciding on, which was the butcher. I've included some photograph of clothes and also armour. The armour was there to help me understand how metallic surfaces look, in case my character had metallic features in his equipment or clothes. Some of the clothes (the older looking ones) have numerous folds and creases and these will be really helpful when I move onto drawing the texture for the clothing. It will help me paint more convincing clothing surface.
Some of the first photographs I wanted to add were the ones on top-left. These show different hairstyles, beards and unique facial features. They also show faces of different ages, so I can have some idea of how I could alter my characters face if I felt I should make him older or younger. I could even consider changing his hair and skin colour to suggest him as a traveller or someone from a different region of the world. Other photographs include shoes, boots, butcher knives and belts. even such small pieces of equipment/clothing can have a strong impact on my characters look. It's important to try out different styles to hopefully end up with the best possible combination.
Butcher Character Silhouettes
The bottom 2 rows were my initial ideas (apart from the last one). I was not happy with them, partly because I spent too much time at this stage and didn't have as much variation as I planned. I've put too much detail into those too early. Then after my initial review of the ideas by a tutor, I went back to develop some fresh ideas, I added the last idea and also the top row; to my surprise these were the strongest ideas. The fact I went away from these for a day and came back with a fresh mind helped me a lot. I felt ready to move on and decided to use the top left idea.
Life Drawing
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I think I would struggle with modelling of my upcoming character if it wasn't for all the Life Drawing sessions I did in the past, including the ones now.
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These proved to be really helpful, as my visual library has surely expanded and allowed me to understand the shape of the human body better; modelling should feel much easier to get through because of this.
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