Visual Design – Assignment 1

School assignment – design a hero and two enemies.

This is going to be a worklog on my first assignment in Visual Design. Assignment: Design one “hero” and two enemies. Fully detailed view for the characters. Sketch left/right side and backside view.

Hero, front-view (sketch 1)

If you didn’t see it, I’ve picked up some inspiration from the Prince of Persia video game series, I love the art and design in the games. Quick sketch (taken 2 hours or so, including erasing the whole character, starting a new one, gathering references and so on) with rough colors and details done in Corel Painter 11 with Wacom Intuos 4 medium pen tablet.

Hero, front view (sketch 2)

Another concept for the same assignment. After hearing “Oh! Is that inspired by Prince of Persia?!” by several classmates and some design thoughts, I decided I wanted to change the look of my hero quite drastically. I feel better about this concept, it has more personality and in my opinion it “flows” better and stands out as something you would see in a hero character.

Hero (front-view), color

Decided to work further on this concept. Added some colors.

Hero – Final

Here’s the concept, more or less finalized.. I might change some things here and there, but I feel it’s roughly finished.

Enemy (front-view), 1

First enemy, concept character, decided to pick some inspiration from Medusa.

Enemy (front-view), basic colors

Local/Basic colors added to the enemy, now for the next step – adding details with different values and colors.

Enemy 2 (front view), Basic Colors

Sketch for another enemy, a tree! This creature is inspired (or rather tired) from a MMO-game called Aion.

You can have a look at all the finished designs here if you wish, includes character-concepts of a hero and two enemies, as well as a perspective of a building.

Feel free to give critiques, I’d love to get input on what I can do differently to (hopefully) improve the characters over time. I obviously have to work a lot on coloring and adding details, and I need to learn how to draw properly. Right now I am not sure exactly what types of details I want to add, perhaps some ornamental armor on the hero (partly done in concept 2 of the hero) and chains/some sort of “evil” stuff going on for the enemies, but if you have something cool – go ahead and add a comment.