I think in November or the beginning of December Lauren asked me on facebook if I could design the characters for her extended practice animation. I said yes without doubt because I love character design! and I treasure every collaborating opportunity because it gives me chances to involve in someone's work and communicate!
At first Lauren told me her idea and what she wants from the characters and sent me a lot of photos of her and her sister Maressa. Since she wants the characters based on her childhood and probably also want them to be resembling therefore I want to practice a bit of the realistic drawing before simplifying them into cartoon style.
May also want adult characters?
I have not drawn realistically for quite a long time but weirdly it was not too difficult to pick up. Although they might not look exactly like photo, it is very different to what I normally draw so I am quite proud of these drawings. What is more, I learn to focus on the proportion of face and the head size of kids are so different to adults though this practice. However Lauren said she wants the style of last time when we collaborate, the children's tales one, where I used watercolour style. It is very cartoon and soft. The practice still valuable and motivates me to do more realistic drawings!
In time management wise, Lauren said she would not need these in December but best after we come back from Japan. So I decided to start off during Christmas and make a start so everything would not be a rush, also allow more time to test out different styles. I think i will simplify the design and the lines, pick out the important features of the two models, aiming to create a character that Lauren could easily copy and work with as well as make them resemble to the person in real world.
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