Character design: Shadow/ Mors

In this post, I will be showing my step by step processes that I took to create my characters for this project. 

Using photoshop, I created a new A3 file for my new drawing, and set the background to white, and after I was satisfied with the settings, I created the file.

On the first layer, I sketched out the pose, of my character using a pencil tool, and drew the layout of the background. 

I then added a new layer for some more details and the shadows for my character. To do this, I changed the layer setting from Normal to Multiply, and then lowered the opacity of my brush to around 38%.

Once again I created a new layer to add colour. At first I struggled finding the perfect colour palette that would display the both the steampunk and a Victorian era theme. I then did some research on different colour panels that would suit him perfectly.

Steampunk colour palate. 

I played around with the colours above by trying out different shades of the colours using the Paint bucket tool. After playing around with the colour palate, I found the perfect colours and then coloured my character. 

In addition, I created another layer for the background which consisted of basic structures of building. I did not put much detail in the back ground because I wanted the focus to be on the character instead. I then used a paint bucket tool to fill in the space with a dark shade of blue to create a night background. I added the light in the on the building in the back to prevent the background from being too plain.

Lastly I used a Smudge tool to smoothen out the lines to make it look smoother and get rid of the ridged lines in it. 

Overall I liked the outcome of the drawing, especially the colour palate that I chose, for the clothes for my character. The background could have been better but since I was not mainly focusing it, I did not go into much detail.

 

My second design was Mors, who is the protagonist in the story. Unfortunately, while drawing him, I had the layers mixed up, and accidently deleting some of which were my process. Briefly, I went through the same processes similar to the ones mentioned above. I did not focus on the background in this drawing as well, just to keep all the focus on the character and the details I added that relate to the steampunk theme.