Cartoon Character Creation

Mood board of cartoon characters...

Annotations to existing cartoon characters...

Sketches of various cartoon character features...

Some of my initial sketches to develop my final cartoon character...

Cartoon Character 1: Forest Boy

The idea for this character is that he is a boy that lives in the woods and he wears strange clothes he finds on his travels (tweed suit and strange ears)

I scanned in my sketch in to Photoshop and painted the various areas using the paint brush tools. I pasted in a tweed texture in to the suit area using the 'Paste special - paste into' function.

I think that he looks like an interesting character as he has unique and strange features like his ears and eyes and his tweed suit - I think I should have made the outlines thinner and focused more on proportions but I am pleased with the result.

Cartoon Character 2: Disco Cow

The idea for this character is that she is a really funky and confident cow that likes to party so I dressed her in a 60's/70's hippie dance floor look. I think the bold colour blocks would be eye catching and interesting to look at.

I initially drew some shoes but thought it would be better to have the cow hooves to reinforce the fact that she is a cow.

Here is the initial sketch for the head of my cow - I think it needs to be more feminim though so I will add some eye lashes and some lips.

I scanned in the sketches of her body, sharpened them and added colour using the painting tools in Photoshop with the use of the various selection tools. I constructed her face using the pentel in Illustrator.

I really like this outcome as it is really funky and different to normal cartoons - however, I think if I had more time I would have put more detail in to the face and made the body more in proportion to a real cow as her arms would be as long as her legs and her body would be much longer - but as this is a cartoon I think it works fine. Also the colours are quite conflicting so I would look in to that more.