Reflection of game art, Week Nineteen

This week we received the first feedback from the village character project, for my initial concepts, which I produced a mood board, silhouettes, idea generations (with photo bashing) and refinement of ideas. The feedback I received denied approval for further concept development, as I did not annotate my work displaying my thoughts and ideas, therefore I was to deduce where I was going with my final design. I discussed with my tutor about how to develop my design and concluded a final design which I would progress with. I decided to use the with the long layered fur skirt and belt bags, I chose this design as the silhouette is interesting and recognizable, I also like the design for the fur lined layered skirt as people from this medieval time would have worn lots of layers and fur clothing for the cold. The low off the shoulder top and corset is recognizable for a medieval bar maid, you can also see how the character has developed from the mood board and where the ideas have come from. Now that I have a final design I can develop it further with values and colour. To do this I started with turning my design into Black and white, then duplicating my design and adding a gradient over the top of each layer, starting very light and gradually darkening the gradient over each one. I then added a overlay filter to each layer to blend the gradient with the design, I added a gradient iterations to my design, so that I make the character more readable by adding a focus on the face, also to decide the level of darkness and contrast on my design. After I created various iterations of pattern values, which I changed different elements of my character such as the skirt, apron, belts, so that they contrast with each other and are easier to read. Once I had finished the values, I collected together images of paintings with different colour palettes I like to create a mood board. I then used the images I had collected to colour pick from them and create a colour palette of five colours. I then used these colour palettes to create iterations of colour values for my design, by adding a colour filter over a certain area.

In life drawing this week we continued the theme of fabrics. We started with some warm up sketches then moved onto mid-tone paper and soft drawing materials to create tonal values, to capture the folds of the fabrics. 

In this drawing we had thirty five minutes to create a tonal value sketch of the figure and fabric, I used my time to sketch down a proportional drawing of the figure with lines, then used the rest of my time to focus on the fabric and rendering the values. Overall I think I achieved a proportional drawing, and good tonal values. However as I decided to used soft pencil to render, it did not blend enough to create tone and the fabric resulted it looking flat and too dark. To improve on this drawing, next time I would use softer materials such as charcoal, even though I still use white chalk in this drawing to highlight the drawing, it did not blend well with the pencil, leaving it looking very contrasted and not enough value range.