LiccLicc - Kickoff
Heyho there!
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"LiccLicc" is also a rather lightweight project. This times frame:
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" VR youtube character designs, western stylisation, strong geometrical visual language"
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This is a soothing one, balancing out the heavy weight projects that come with more complexity and a higher level of realism.
If you enjoy the bold colours here, you might also like these 2 gals over there: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nY1qee
Again, a one-sheet-warm-up to stroll and give me some time thinking while warming up my hand
Decided for a form language option.
Preparing silhouette options for other characters, again: looking for readability by focus distribution
Look at this mass.
As soon as the first sketches are down, I can deduce the silhouettes of further characters.
She claims to be 19 years old.
Filling the silhouettes with various internal shapes, gotta remember my restriction to stick to geometrical ones.
Having the possible personality traits in mind I fill in shapes accordingly
Coffein is rushing through my veins, pushing my brain to look for nice contrasts within the sketches.
Rethinking the classic brightness of skin clour, deciding to go for flashy hues and ashen, dark skin.
Skinning the chosen silhouettes and shapes with possible colours. A visual hooker remains missing so their tongues turned flashy. I need to decide on how long they can grow.
Double checking my colour choices and quickly looking at how they appear with varying saturation levels. It looks dangerously underdelivering, the choics I made led to a style that lives with the liveliness of the sketches. Or dies with it.
Love this stage. Warming up with one character as a preparation for a expression sheet.
First sketch usually sucks, it takes a sheet to get into it.
Having a certain personality type in mind, I define expressions typical for this specific character so others get a feeling for this lad.
Trying out lighting possibilities for a needed social media cover.
Went over to instagram and created a mock up of how this project series could be displayed. Took a while as I defined the goal and function of the covers as I went.
One option seemed to fulfill all criterias - but lacked on the flashy colours I tasked myself with.
Sucked. Started to integrate what was missing.
Finally - previews: check. Character:check. Flashy colour: check. Split-figure logo:check. Project name: check.
Found a solution , stopped exploring.
Could have more coffe, though.
