Yesterday, I sat down to doodle this character. He's one of my favorites and hes always great to draw even if it was a little hard... his hat bugged me alot).
Ill talk a bit about him before getting into my lengthy discussion: I sat down to do this because... hes one of my more compelling characters. The way I drew him here, i think it demonstrates how I draw, its super loose but it tightens up after a while. My mind usually fills in the blanks with the looser ones, so i dont spend more time on them but you can tell where i really payed attention to detail. If it looks animated thats good; I want my sketches to have a more animated feel to them, its gonna be better for the work I wanna do in the future.
Which is gonna lead me into my next discussion!!!
Drawing him I had something in my mind because, Id recently come to realize that even though I want to go into character design, which is all about how a character looks, Im really more interested in how a character feels. When I think so cinematically, it gets me in touch with emotions more than visuals. Does that make sense? I think its alot more important to have characters touch on an emotional level rather than a visual level, I mean, you can have an ugly character but if their emotionally compelling you can forgive their ugliness.
The things im keeping in mind though, are movies like the Miyazaki movies, or the older final fantasies, or other animated movies. Im taking more cues from animated movies because, as much as I like concept art, I want to get some kind of emotional response too (its not concept arts fault; after all, its all about visuals).
I want to find some kind of balance, cool looking stuff that can grip you emotionally too. My mind has been working in nothing but this way and its so awesome I can hardly express it, but anyway... Ill have to experiment with more sketches, which i will!
thats all for now, Ill have another discussion up tomorrow~
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