Character Acting and Color!

As I continue my studies into character and story structure I’ve been finding myself applying more and more of it to my work subconsciously in this latest finished piece I found myself leaning back in my chair thinking carefully about Elsa as a character and what shes going to be thinking about as I put my pen to the paper.  

The pose and attitude I got was quite pleasing and I was surprised by how much life simply keeping in mind what a character would be thinking about brings forth in a drawing.

So here’s Elsa playing with her Device happily -oh and a color portrait test!

Loura Silhouettes and the Gang!

So after much discussion and character research I’ve come to find I need to let characters be who they need to be rather than who I want them to be.   Such as re-purposing Stag’s old design into a completely new character and giving him a personality to match it.  So after a night of tea and drawing, here’s a brand new set of silhouettes…

 

And I couldn’t help myself so I did the whole gang in Silhouette