Brain Storm

Insect Family

I had a brief instructing me to create a family of insects, I decided to make a mother, father and Baby in this family.
When thinking about the mother I looked at ladybirds, them being the stereotypical female insect. I wanted her to be a kind looking character.

For the father, I wanted a tall kind of character, a praying mantis was my first idea for it as I liked the eyes which could be drawn as glasses, this gave me the idea for father figure. I had trouble drawing the mouth area so I decided that giving the character was a good replacement for what I couldn't draw and it also worked nicely with the father figure look.
For the baby, I thought about what could be considered a baby in an insect perspective. The two ideas I had were a caterpillar or a maggot, the maggot didn't seem like a good idea because it didn't seem cute enough to be a baby character so I went for the caterpillar. 

I used the caterpillar on this image as reference when I was struggling with the caterpillar legs.

Builder Reference

I'm looking at characters that fit the idea of Intelligent, Strong and Shy.

Intelligent Characters.

Dexter - Dexter's Laboratory

Velma Dinkley - Scooby Doo

Strong Characters.

Bane - Batman

Johnny Bravo

Shy Characters.

Chuckie - Rugrats

Piglet - Winnie the Pooh

Ronald Searle Vampire

I was briefed on creating a vampire character in the style of Ronald Searle.
I'm unsure I did this design very well so I decided to practice my coloring skills with the final design.


Searle Example

Vampire Design

Builder Designs

I was briefed on designing 3 builder characters, one intelligent, one strong and one shy.
These are my workings as I created them.

Thumbnail Acting Shots

I've been tasked with coming up with some thumbnails of a character reacting at key points to a 10 second clip of someone speaking.

The clip I used is from Doctor Who