A brand new character I'm fiddling around with. I was looking at frogs and also thinking of the stop motion film "Wind in the Willows" for inspiration. The species of frog I got interested in was the amazon horned frog. Below are examples of what I was looking at:
I also looked at this blog with interested designs that inspired me to exaggerate the features of my frog. http://melissavart.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-02-07T20:04:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false
So I looked at the frog and liked how he had these crazy "brows" and enlarged them. I loved his knobby hands and feet as well! So I made them small instead. Right away I knew I wanted him to wear a steam punk outfit. There was something about his figure that told me that he should be this "pompous" guy who is very stylish. I enjoy details so I decided to experiment with textures and paint over them to get a sense of how the cloth was laying over the form of the character. There's more work to be done for folds of the cloth and more information in various other parts of the outfit like the boots, leather straps around his wrists, and his white collar. So far this has been great practice and a lot of fun to work on!
I like this character design enough that I want to make a puppet out of him. That would make a fun trip to the fabric store! Just thinking about it makes me excited!
So I looked at the frog and liked how he had these crazy "brows" and enlarged them. I loved his knobby hands and feet as well! So I made them small instead. Right away I knew I wanted him to wear a steam punk outfit. There was something about his figure that told me that he should be this "pompous" guy who is very stylish. I enjoy details so I decided to experiment with textures and paint over them to get a sense of how the cloth was laying over the form of the character. There's more work to be done for folds of the cloth and more information in various other parts of the outfit like the boots, leather straps around his wrists, and his white collar. So far this has been great practice and a lot of fun to work on!
I like this character design enough that I want to make a puppet out of him. That would make a fun trip to the fabric store! Just thinking about it makes me excited!
