Character Designer - Michael Myers

Trying to improve my character design skills I came across a designer that I actual aspire to be able to draw for my next level of character design, right now I am experienced enough to add shading in the right place but I guess that just takes time.

You can see Michael uses a very clean and sharp style, coupled with natural shading it gives design a great 3D look.

As I mentioned above, before I attempt to create a piece with a high amount of detail I need to get comfortable with shading and simple character stanced and I think this is a great starting point. I could even go in to illustrator with this type of design which would allow me to create a huge amount of variations.

Link the his work

Character Designer - Chris Spooner

is designer is quite interesting, I was recently looking over his blog and his came across a tutorial for a simple handy man style character, here is a picture...

What I like about the whole tutorial is that none of this is done with a tablet or drawing pen, you do everything in illustrator with vector lines and a mouse. It just goes to show that you can still create some great but minimalistic designs with minimal tools. How great it may be though there is still a limitation to just using a mouse, to get a truly great drawing pencil or pen is required!

Here is a link to his tutorial

Character Designer - Hong Wen

While browsing through deviant art for inspiration, I came across a very specific style of character design that I find great.

The rest of her works also considers background art that goes into great detail. What I really attracts me though is the 'almost finished' blotchy style her pieces have, it's almost finished but it would look perfectly fine left at that stage. I would be great to take some of pieces in to 3D space and create some fantastic imagery.

Link to her Work

Me, Myself and I

Hey guys, 

So for my first task I have been asked to write a blog post that tells a little bit about my self, so here goes.

I'm 19 years old and I love music, fitness and creating Youtube videos! I started my fitness journey at the beginning of the year and so far I have made some awesome progress, when I'm happy with my results I will finally post them online! Then there is music, I have taught my self two instruments: piano and guitar. I mainly play piano though as I feel I can bring out so many more emotions with dynamics. Finally there is my Youtube, I currently run a YouTube account with my friend Tom Cutts we have slowly used it and gained a steady 3,000 subscribers though our Twitter accounts have enabled us to collect 60,000 followers each. 

I am doing Digital Film, Games & Animation because I love games and I film but this course also gives me brilliant access to equipment so that our YouTube account can make some big changes, over the next year I expect our hard work will pay off!