BA3a - Week 4 Summary

This week I continued with the mount designs. Below are some of the designs I picked that had more potential and made more detailed sketches from their silhouettes.

Many of these felt quite stiff and too much like your average animal, so I may need to push the designs further.

I then picked from them and worked on more detailed designs with some colour schemes using the glow effects on Photoshop. I like all of these so it was a challenge to pick, but I think the top two work the best as mounts. I like the idea of the bottom right one being either a monster or a boss design, as I think the colour scheme I chose is really interesting and I like the harpy design. 

I also started working on the monster designs this week, starting with silhouettes. I feel like these were difficult, as I didn't want to make designs that looked as familiar as the mounts and pets etc, as they are supposed to be scarier and fightable. Thus I was trying not to have them look much like familiar animals etc. 

After this I moved straight to making the detailed designs with the effects, because I felt that the second sheet with further details seemed pointless if I'm doing the same thing on the next drawings anyway. It saved a lot of time to just move straight to this point so i think it was a good decision. 

I think due to making so many designs I am improving a lot with each area, and these ones have ended up being some of my favourites. I thinks some of them would make good mounts/pets as well so I may have to do some redesigning and seeing what I prefer. The bottom middle canine design is one of my favourites, but I like them all a lot so I haven't quite chosen two designs quite yet. 

Our task for this week was to chose from two briefs again. I chose brief C and the model pose below.

We had to draw over the model using references for clothing from the era provided, and use the characteristics listed too. We also had to draw a background to put the character into. I made a moodboard of some clothing from the era. 

I also used this image as reference for the background, from here (x)

Below is my final drawing. I think with more time I could have done a better job, but it felt like a very rushed piece and I also often struggle with clothing and patterns. I also think I could have added more flow to the clothes working with the pose I was given, but I think I ended up making it look quite flat. I wanted the background to not take too long, as I didn't have that much time, but it may have taken away from the model drawing. All in all however I'm relatively proud of this, and the background really brought the piece together. I added an orange layer over the top to make the piece look older and similar to the images I was using as reference.