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okokok im finally gonna (hopefully) get my shit together and regain at least some sort of online presence again. It's as usual all about making good habits, and I gotta admit it's quite difficult for good habits to come back, when your main one consists of "get home -> bed". So I'm gonna have to work on, not doing that as a default, from now on, ya know? Might gonna be a bit bumpy, but I'll hopefully find some balance here again.

I'm partly at fault for not thinking ahead,, here I am, assuming the start of any school year is as usual gonna be a bit slow-paced, with plenty of room to get back into things, and not "oh yeah you've got like 4 big deadlines scattered across the first 2 months oops" so I've been hit with a bit more stress than expected. Add onto that the constant niggling thoughts of "ohgod what am i supposed to do after school???" SO, letting online stuff take the backseat for a bit was really helpful for a while.

But now it's getting a bit silly, seeing as I've still not even gotten you guys up to date on what stuff I've done last year during school. Not mentioning all the unfinished art pieces I've started but never completed. I've posted some on my patreon, but even there it still is incomplete. (example: I think I've only posted 4 of the 6 character design assignments shown here over on patreon.)

I'm gonna try to be better, I honsetly miss being active online
SO I was thinking of just dumping a bunch of the backlog into compilations today, to finally get that out of the way

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Thus now onto talking about the actual stuff in this compilation;

Basically they're all character design assigments where we usually got 1. a theme, and 2. a set amount of poses to draw. The poses needed to 1. show who the character is, 2. be dynamic, 3. be clear in silhouette, and 4. avoid stiffness and symmetry (just a short run down of the common feedback we were given)
The assignments aren't in chronologial order here, we started with only having to design 1 character and only later needed to increase to 2.
So, the first one was Medieval themed, and throughout the year I tried very hard to get comfortable with doing friendly looking cartoony designs. The second one was greek/roman? I just ended up doing a bunch of centaurs, and I'm still bad at exagerating weird proportions.
Third was egyptian, and making wings look like hands was harder than I thought it would be. Fourth was viking themed, and I'm still very much "??????????" when it comes to stylizing human characters. Fifth was Renaissance, and I friggin love that gecko. I finally started thinking more about what designs "I" would like to draw, instead of just focusing on making it cartoony.

Sixth was the last one of the year, we were free to do whatever type of character we wanted, and needed to do a turnaround for them. I ended up picking the gal from
Surf. and adjusted her bodytype to make a more coherent looking combination of proportions. (thin athletic upper body + thicc thighs apparently made for an "inconsistent" bodytype. So for this assignment only, she traded her thicc™ legs into long™ )
Here was the first draft btw:

Oh I probably should also reiterate, the character design class is specifically catered for 2D animated media. BOY if it had included the range of 3D models meant for game animation, you BET I'd be slinging dark broody detail rendered creatures left and right,, but alas *shrug*

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okokok im finally gonna (hopefully) get my shit together and regain at least some sort of online presence again. It's as usual all about making good habits, and I gotta admit it's quite difficult for good habits to come back, when your main one consists of "get home -> bed". So I'm gonna have to work on, not doing that as a default, from now on, ya know? Might gonna be a bit bumpy, but I'll hopefully find some balance here again.

I'm partly at fault for not thinking ahead,, here I am, assuming the start of any school year is as usual gonna be a bit slow-paced, with plenty of room to get back into things, and not "oh yeah you've got like 4 big deadlines scattered across the first 2 months oops" so I've been hit with a bit more stress than expected. Add onto that the constant niggling thoughts of "ohgod what am i supposed to do after school???" SO, letting online stuff take the backseat for a bit was really helpful for a while.

But now it's getting a bit silly, seeing as I've still not even gotten you guys up to date on what stuff I've done last year during school. Not mentioning all the unfinished art pieces I've started but never completed. I've posted some on my patreon, but even there it still is incomplete. (example: I think I've only posted 4 of the 6 character design assignments shown here over on patreon.)

I'm gonna try to be better, I honsetly miss being active online
SO I was thinking of just dumping a bunch of the backlog into compilations today, to finally get that out of the way

----

Thus now onto talking about the actual stuff in this compilation;

Basically they're all character design assigments where we usually got 1. a theme, and 2. a set amount of poses to draw. The poses needed to 1. show who the character is, 2. be dynamic, 3. be clear in silhouette, and 4. avoid stiffness and symmetry (just a short run down of the common feedback we were given)
The assignments aren't in chronologial order here, we started with only having to design 1 character and only later needed to increase to 2.
So, the first one was Medieval themed, and throughout the year I tried very hard to get comfortable with doing friendly looking cartoony designs. The second one was greek/roman? I just ended up doing a bunch of centaurs, and I'm still bad at exagerating weird proportions.
Third was egyptian, and making wings look like hands was harder than I thought it would be. Fourth was viking themed, and I'm still very much "??????????" when it comes to stylizing human characters. Fifth was Renaissance, and I friggin love that gecko. I finally started thinking more about what designs "I" would like to draw, instead of just focusing on making it cartoony.

Sixth was the last one of the year, we were free to do whatever type of character we wanted, and needed to do a turnaround for them. I ended up picking the gal from
Surf. and adjusted her bodytype to make a more coherent looking combination of proportions. (thin athletic upper body + thicc thighs apparently made for an "inconsistent" bodytype. So for this assignment only, she traded her thicc™ legs into long™ )
Here was the first draft btw:

Oh I probably should also reiterate, the character design class is specifically catered for 2D animated media. BOY if it had included the range of 3D models meant for game animation, you BET I'd be slinging dark broody detail rendered creatures left and right,, but alas *shrug*