Drawn Together: Character Design (Head)

CREATING THE HEAD

Well, after a mad cap time at the fair, I got home and as soon as I had my fill of Pasta, tuna and a heap of other salad related things mixed up with Mayo' I got back to work with the Character Design I was working on.

The eyes seem to be the best place to start as they can convey the emotion a lot better and half the time you don't even have to change the mouth, which is handy and saves me squiggling about too much with things for a while.

I have created about 7 heads so far with alternate eyes and tomorrow after another mad cap trip 'This time to the Car-Boot Sale' I will be starting on the body and the ever annoying limbs. Limbs generally are a bit of a pain, none more so than BABY LIMBS. Don't get me wrong I have no worry that I wont be able to do them it's just that it involves me zoomed into the picture at a silly level twisting, tweaking and generally fannying around with slight curves so you get the depth without actually having to state it 'shade works GREAT for this but can also be a pain'. I will get it done of that I am sure... It's just a matter of mathematics.

T+C+TV+C2=X

T=Time, C=Coffee, TV=TV and X is the expletive when after all that I did the thumb on the wrong side of a chubby hand.