Visual Language - Study Task 2 - Captain Character - Face shapes

This design sheet demonstrates my thought process of how I wanted my characters head to look. I started off on basic shapes, mainly focusing on round, soft edged shapes in order to fit in with my characters personality and with the shape of the body.

With shapes like the pear and the circle shaped heads, I found them to be too complex, and didn't fit the idea of my character. I feel as though the completely round head would be too generic, and lead the character to looking too simple. I also felt that the pear-shape would create more of a personality for my character, and also make him look a bit more realistic than what I wanted him to look.

Here, you can tell that I decided that my character would definitely have small glasses in order to fit in with his nerdy disposition. I started to develop and incorporate other features such as ears, nose and mouth. I used this 1/4 angle so I could experiment with the positions and shapes of his features clearly and demonstrate the placements of facial features all over the face.

Here I started to narrow down the shape and dimensions of my characters face. I found that some of the faces look familiar and quite generic. I want my character to look simple and boring, but still unique. I enjoyed experimenting with the extremes of the character such as the angry eyes and the large ears. Through this constant trial and error routine, I was able to figure out what features suited my character and how pleasing they looked to me and also what features and shapes need work on.

This sheet clearly demonstrates the finalisation of my character's face shape. I start to draw the character in the relatively similar face shape. In the top left corner, I created a clear drawing of my character's face, with his body. Even though I feel that this image is true to the character description, I still feel that my character needs further development in order to fully capture my characters description and personality.

I feel that the body needs to be larger, and more slouched. I also feel that the head needs more developed features such as the hair and the position of the features in order to dumb down and age the character to fit in with my description. He is meant to be a simple character with a dull but content life, and I feel like giving the character relatively normal hair indicates a more well-rounded person, which is the opposite to what I want.