Character Design -Week 2

This week we looked at the basic shapes of cartoon faces. Our first task was to draw simple faces and experiment with sizes, shapes and positioning of eyes and noses etc.

From here, we looked at bodies. Examining examples of famous characters we had to determine key areas of mass and how these shapes define the character:

Batman:

Slightly out of proportion Superman: 

Hulk: 

Getting to grips with the basics, we were free to experiment with the shape, size and positions of these keys areas of mass and see what kind of characters we could create: