In the Iron John story there are two kings, so in the first
week of our FMP we decided to design one of them each. The description of both
is quite brief and lacking details which gave us plenty of room for our own interpretations.
In situations like that I like to start my design process by drawing many
silhouettes. That allows me to explore a lot of different ideas in a quick way
by focusing on overall presence of the character rather than details.
After I finished drawing those silhouettes I chose a few which
shapes stood out the most against the others, and I explored them a bit further
by adding some values on top of them. I also started one more elaborate sketch
with intention of adding some background, however I wasn't really happy with it
so I abandoned it.
I still couldn't decide which direction I wanted to go with
this character so I did some quick additional sketches. I used my sketchbook
and pencil instead of Photoshop which helped me to concentrate purely on ideas
instead of what type of brush or layer mode I should use.
These sketches as well as reading the story again helped me
to finally make up my mind. In the Iron John the second king was fighting in
the war so I decided to shape my design around that. He needed to be a warrior,
to look strong and wear an armour instead of fancy robes. Knowing that I came
up with a few more ideas using photobashing. I was a bit sceptic about using
this method of work as I like to create my designs from scratches but Finn
talked me into trying it and I must say that I'm glad he did because I'm pretty
happy with how it turned out. After I decided on one idea I turned it into an illustration.
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