Research
Hello guys,Today I will show you my research for my characters for the purpose of development and inspiration of my characters. My research consists of American Comic books, series, games, studies, character designs, illustrations, anime and manga. My main artist research was Joe Madureira which I had a specific post about him and his artwork.
For my witch Aura:
For Aura I looked at different characters from different Japanese games and anime including the anime by studio Trigger called "little witch academia", The popular game "The Legend of Zelda Win Walker" by Nintendo (It recently got a new game called "The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wild") and a character named Vivi in a game called Final Fantasy by Square-enix.
Let us start with the Little witch Academia Character Designs:
These character designs were made by Studio Trigger (an animation studio set in Japan). They were made by the character designer Yoh Yohsinari in 2013 for the movie. I chose Little Witch Academia as my inspiration for my witch because Studio Trigger has one of my favourite stylised character designs compared to other animation studios in Japan. I always recognise their animation series because of their unique style on how the eyes, hair and outfits are drawn. Moreover, I also chose this anime series specifically since it talks about witches and it has witch character designs which makes it a really good and useful reference for my witch for drawing the outfits and the colours that I am going to use.
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Vivi from Final Fantasy:
Vivi is a character in a popular Japanese Role Playing game called Final Fantasy made by the gaming company Square-enix. His design was inspired by another Final Fantasy character from the game "The Black Mage". I chose Vivi to be my inspiration for the 2 pets of my witch. I was mostly inspired by Vivi's eyes since they are simple and cute looking. Another inspiration I took from Vivi was the hat on his head since it looks witch like, it inspired me to develop my witch hat design into something unique and creative.
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The Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker is a game made by Nintendo and it is a sequel made for the console the Wii U. I chose this specific sequel because of its cartoonish and unusual thick line work made by Shigeru Miyamoto. The main character Link is shown above in 2 different illustrations for the game artwork; I used these illustrations for inspiration for my witch clothes and making different line work since I normally work with minimal lines.
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Let us start with the Little witch Academia Character Designs:
These character designs were made by Studio Trigger (an animation studio set in Japan). They were made by the character designer Yoh Yohsinari in 2013 for the movie. I chose Little Witch Academia as my inspiration for my witch because Studio Trigger has one of my favourite stylised character designs compared to other animation studios in Japan. I always recognise their animation series because of their unique style on how the eyes, hair and outfits are drawn. Moreover, I also chose this anime series specifically since it talks about witches and it has witch character designs which makes it a really good and useful reference for my witch for drawing the outfits and the colours that I am going to use.
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Vivi from Final Fantasy:
Vivi is a character in a popular Japanese Role Playing game called Final Fantasy made by the gaming company Square-enix. His design was inspired by another Final Fantasy character from the game "The Black Mage". I chose Vivi to be my inspiration for the 2 pets of my witch. I was mostly inspired by Vivi's eyes since they are simple and cute looking. Another inspiration I took from Vivi was the hat on his head since it looks witch like, it inspired me to develop my witch hat design into something unique and creative.
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The Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker is a game made by Nintendo and it is a sequel made for the console the Wii U. I chose this specific sequel because of its cartoonish and unusual thick line work made by Shigeru Miyamoto. The main character Link is shown above in 2 different illustrations for the game artwork; I used these illustrations for inspiration for my witch clothes and making different line work since I normally work with minimal lines.
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For Dave the Scarecrow:
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For Dave, I have researched about Scarecrow the villain from DC comics in both the New 52 edition Comics and Batman the animated series. I chose Scarecrow especially these 2 versions of it since I adore how the designs of both of them look. The first one was a comic panel drawn by David Finch while the other picture was a screenshot from Batman the animated series. Moreover, since I am doing a character design for my scarecrow, I thought that Scarecrow was the best character to use as a reference to my character because it is simply a scarecrow as my character.
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For more inspiration, I have looked at a character named Fiddlesticks from the popular game League of Legends. I thought it is a good reference to my scarecrow since it is going to have ripped clothes and this will help me out to draw them as a reference. I adore the League of Legends artwork since I like the artists usage of colours and the way they draw their characters are mostly inspired by anime characters and comic book characters but they make it into their own style.
For Dante the Demon:
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Dante was mostly inspired by anime series that were adopted from a manga comic such as: Tokyo Ghoul by Studio Pierrot and Blue Exorcist by A-1 Pictures. The reason I chose Blue Exorcist as my style was because of how the faces and body are drawn and the main character's tail in the character deign shown above. I though that taking a full body reference from the character design would be useful since I tend to lack human proportions. On the other hand, the only thing that I used inspiration from Tokyo Ghouls are the eyes since I wanted my demon to look scary, weird and different from other characters.
For Reaper:
Here I have looked at the Grim Reaper from a new game on the PlayStation 4 called Let it die. I used this as my reference since I loved how they mixed the ordinary reaper with modern times by adding modern clothes, glasses and a golf like scythe which makes it unique and creative. I took this characters clothes as a reference for my reaper.
This is Leonardo Da Vinci's Skeleton and skull study. I chose this study for my reaper as a reference to have a grasp of how to draw the skeleton and skull. I think that Leonardo is the best and is the most reliable reference for studying the human body,
For the Exorcist:
For my Exorcist I was inspired by John Constantine both the TV series and the Comic book series since he is an exorcist himself and I thought that it would be a great idea to have him as a reference to my exorcist character. Moreover , I looked at artists like Aco and Jim Lee which both worked for DC Comics to study their American Comics art style since this style has different line work, proportions and style from what I draw.
I think making the exorcist and the reaper will be the most challenging part of this major project since I am going to be drawing in a different style.
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