Telling tales - character research and design

 I first of all looked at a general, character style that we wanted to work in. We both decided as we wern't really confident in Maya, that we would keep the designs simple.  










Because Ciara said she would create the girl chracter. I got on designing the male character. We thought about either sibling rivalry or a sporty guy trying to impress his girlfriend or something, so I looked at existing characters that fit this description.

Most of these characters have a triangular form, which makes them look athletic. The chracter I'm creating will look athletic, but depending on the personality of the character, will have slightly different shaped features. If i want him to look imtimidating, I'll give him and pointer face like image 2, but if I want to make him friendly looking, I'll give him a more rounded, softer looking face. 

I started drawing some sporty older brother kind of person, and he ended up looking like he played baseball. I played around with the shape of his face, because i wasn't sure how square we wanted his face. 

I showed my designs to Ciara, and she liked the circled character. We both liked his triangular shape and friendlyer look. We decided he would be an older brother to the girl she had designed. I'm now going to give this character to Ciara to adjust to look more like her character, and she will give me hers, then we will decide on and add colour.