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Tonight I've got a little something different for you, it's a mood board, check it out!

Google tells me that this should "evoke or project a particular style or concept," and that's exactly what I'm trying to do! These are a few images I scribbled in Photoshop to help me figure out what motifs I wanted to use to develop the figures I'm working on. They're not super well drawn, but they're a gentle reminder to me about what direction I want to go in.

Tomorrow will mark the start of my first detail pass on the figures I've been working on, check back then to see how it turns out!

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Here's the final bit of groundwork before I detail my three concepts, check it out!

Now that I've got an idea of where I want the light to fall on these forms, I can start to add in detail to finalize each character design!

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for another post!

This evening I've got a little more progress on my silhouettes to share with you, I just started figure number two, take a look!

It's pretty cool how much a little grey can give what's essentially a shadow form, right? I know everything's a little vague detail-wise at the moment, but that's gonna change once get the actual contour of the figures laid-in.

Well that's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for a new post!

Here's what I've got for you this evening, check it out!

As you can see I've started to define the shape the figure on the left by adding a bit of grey on top of the black silhouette, I'll be doing this for each of the figures here, and then progressively adding more detail. At this point the process almost becomes sculpture, I'm carving in the form by adding light and shadow, this is gonna be fun!

That's all for tonight though, check back tomorrow for more progress!

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Here's today's character sheet progress.

There you have it, all three completed silhouettes! As you can see I tried to make each one a bit different from the others, that way I could leave myself with three unique options to choose from. I might even end up mixing design elements from one or all of them in the final character!

Let's not forget today's progress gif.

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Hey everyone, it's time for a new post!

Here's how my character sheet's progressing, take a look!

These are starting to look really good! I changed the position of the middle character's legs a bit, I figured since she's front and center it'd be cool to have her looking straight at the viewer. I'm excited to share the references I used for these characters, but I think it'll be more fun waiting until the silhouettes are completed!

And here's today's progress gif.

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new, see you then!

Hey everyone, it's time again for a new post!

Today I did a little more work on the character sketches I posted yesterday, here's how they're coming along.

As you can see I'll be working through these left to right to refine their shape. I looked up a few references before I started today and I think that helped me a lot. My mind's a really good place for that initial spark of creation, but most of the time it's impossible to work entirely from what's in your head, that's why I'm learning that references are your friend. I'm taking my time on these silhouettes because they're really the most important part of the ideation process, these 'cut-outs' are what will set the overall tone for the character I'm trying to create.

Here's a little progress gif to show what I've done so far.

I think these are gonna be pretty cool looking once I get a little more work done, it's always fun to see how much progress you're making on something, right?

That's all for this post, check back tomorrow for something new!