I wanted my main character to be a friendly little 9 year old boy, he is going to be showcasing my product and using the gloves. With that in mind I had to think about making the hands and arms the focus of my character. After drafting the first 5 designs i asked for some input from classmates and consulted the teacher(Karen) Most seemed to love the appeal of the 3rd design so I tried to improve him by giving him shorter legs and more noticeable arms
Thinking about making a character with expressive limbs made me think of Dee Dee from Dexter’s Laboratory. She has incredibly long limbs and a tiny body as her character is a very expressive and destructive character that dances a lot and breaks a lot of things
Please feel free to give some input on which design elements are your favourites!
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4 replies on “First character designs”
Hi Nur,
All your explorations are cute and appealing. I really like the blush on the 7th and 8th design. Also, I think the hairstyle of your 6th design is very interesting and fun. I look forward to seeing your final design with color and explorations for your 2nd character.- Cao Tran Ca Dao
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Hello Dao!
Thank you so much for your input, yes I absolutely love putting blush on my characters, I might think about putting blush on the second character instead 🙂
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Personally, since your product is Stretchy Arms, I think it would be funnier, more obvious and make more sense if you design your character with shorter arms.Anyways, it’s just a suggestion, I really like your designs so far. – Cao Tran Ca Dao
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Hi Dao, Yeah I agree it would be funny, however, when consulting with Karen she mentioned that I shouldn’t make the body/legs so big and make the arms more of a focus, so I thought it would be quite cute to make him a small little boy with expressive arms, but not too big that he looks like an ape haha
Thank you for your input! 🙂
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