Hello Steemians!
Here is my entry for Design a character contest hosted by @w0olf.
I was streaming my initial sketching process and you can see more about that in this post (including the video).
The process is same as always and I have started with a blank piece of paper and another paper which was filled with my doodles (my reference paper - which I won't show as there are too many writings on that one - it's available in the video).
This is the one I would like to add to the competition. He's small, cute and was fun to draw. I will include all the sketches and drawings I made in this post (minus my reference "scrap" paper).
Among initial sketches were these:
They were drawn on a back of a receipt and are tiny. I did it before the stream and I was playing with the idea of a character. :)
These 8 characters were what I ended up with after the stream was done. It took me little more than an hour to do that and I had a lot of fun. At few times I even forgot I was streaming.
Here are the final colored results. Only thing I'm sorry about it now is the fact that I didn't have more marker colors (I would love to use them on something like that).
I decided to try and experiment a little by adding colored pencils to the drawings without erasing the pencil lines. The end result is sort of unclean, rough and dirty look and I both like and hate that look. First two colored images were done like that. Outlines were added after coloring. I didn't feel like it worked so I outlined the third image and then added all the colors. This time result was more to my liking but there was a little smear on the nose. I need to experiment more with this order and see what I like the most.
Other images I colored with markers and I'm pleased with all of them - which means I'll get more colors in the near future. I tried the same things with markers. Outlining first, then coloring and coloring then outlining. I haven't erased the pencil when using markers. They covered pretty well.
I have also attempted to do it digitally and this is the result:
I feel like something is missing but I can't figure out what it is.
Have fun and keep steeming!
@zneeke