Fishy Drama 2
In this post I have some rough fish drawings. Here I was trying to figure what style to use. Originally I was going to just draw them as regular fish with some accents to them to help establish the decade they are in. I soon scrapped that idea for one that would better represent the time period.
The bottom page pretty much has a general idea of most of the "Jets" and the bottom left shows what I currently have for the leader of the "Sharks".
When I clean them up, my hope is to have them look in such a way that the viewer can get a head start on the personality type. Once I establish the look of the characters, I will try and compose them in story situations that will better illustrate their personality's.
The more I draw these guys, the more I want to change the general idea behind the story to one that is mostly about the lead character having to make a moral decision and changing from who he once. I don't know if that would be considered a coming of age movie.
We'll see.
Fishy Drama
Sorry for not posting this at the start of the month.
I am figuring for this month I would try and create characters that are fish. It has been done many times before I'm sure, but for myself, I am trying to build a bigger design vocabulary, and this months word for me is fish.
I plan on designing a small gang of fish set to West side story. I admit that I have not seen this film ,which is good because I might make some changes later on, but overall I will keep it in tact.
The main reason for using an existing story was to try and simulate the role of a character designer when he/she is hired for a project. I'll read up on the plot , gather some reference and hope, by the end of the month,to have created the main characters and maybe conceptualize some scenes.
When all is said and done, perhaps I could use these characters for a more original story sometime in the future.
I hope that everyone else has an opportunity to participate and if so please do not feel that you need to be locked into "West Side Story" story.
Lady Steam-Pirate Colored
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