11 Second Club - character design

I got really excited when I heard this month's 11 second club clip and immediately started brainstorming how to reinterpret it. I think a lot of times when you know the source material it can be harder to break away to do something different since you already have that preconceived idea of what the actor is doing.

Anyway, after a few scrapped ideas I came to this. I haven't even started boarding yet so the design might change a little, but overall I like her. I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew with her design. I have to keep reminding myself that it's February so I don't have quite as many days as usual.

Bjorn Gunndis!

There's a neat community on deviantart for designing characters based off prompts and shapes. This month there is a theme challenge:


"A heavy, grumpy viking who doesn't care much for combing his/her hair, has a smoking and drinking habit, loves to get into fights"

So here is what I came up with. I have named her "Bjorn Gunndis" which means Bear Battle Maiden. Totally looked up Norse baby names.

Back to character design

does this thing still work? been a few months since i've posted anything -_-

and speaking of being a while, it's been waaaay too long since i did some drawing, so i decided to dive back into trying to get this damn lady designed.

kinda like where these are going..she's a little older which i think works better with the story. playing some with colors, too.

the quest for the perfect character design..

I've got this idea for a short but I keep getting stuck on the character designs. She's...kind of a wannabe princess, but I think most of the drawings I've done of her make her look far too young. Before I had much of the story down i did these designs which i was happy with at the time but, once i started fleshing out the story, i think she's too young.

(done back in 2008)

After some time away from the project, I really hit the story side harder, fleshing it out and doing some ruf boards. After that I took another stab at the design. None of them really jumped out at me. Also I started watching Princess & the Frog towards the end of doing these (the ones on the left were actually last) and I think it's funny how much the designs loosened up.

 (April 2010)

I tried again today, this time with a much more traditional Disney-ish look to her. I like how she turned out but I still think she looks too young :/ Maybe I'll try playing it out and see if it's really as off as I think it is. Even if I don't use her for that, I still think it's a cute design :D

character design exploration

did some sketching last night, working on character designs for the comic i want to do. still exploring a style and design and all that, but i like how most of this came out.