Here are my initial ideas. The starting point for my character started out with something that is completely different to my final design which the sketches towards the end of this post will allure to. At first I started with a simple head shape similar to those used by Hannah Barberra, I experimented with the placement of the facial features around the shape of the head making the character take on different personalities/ expressions, e.g. intelligent, dopey etc.
I decided to identify the face that worked best and put a body, name and occupation to that face.
Here was my attempt at putting the characters face to a body, i didn't feel that this character was strong enough and was not confident in creating a backstory for the character as I wanted to constantly change who he was.
In these sketches I wanted to come up with a character with a look that i could build a backstory around and real depth to his personality, however this was not my final attempt at doing this.
Here we have the emergence of the initial idea for my character - Phil, a security guard with three children and a wife, his family being his only respite from his mundane job as a security guard monitoring CCTV. As I felt comfortable with the initial design of the character I was able to quickly develop the character into something with more depth to it.
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