After getting a few ideas from researching into famous cartoon characters such as The Beano and Charlie Brown I have created my very own character in the style of me. I began with sketching a basic outline of a human figure and drawing simple face expressions, then I started to introduce hair styles. I began by doing a basic messy hair look then after looking into cartoon characters hair styles, I exaggerated on a few and made my hair very large e.g the length of my body or very straight. Also I tried out different types of eyes, I felt I didn't need much research for this as I knew I was going to enlarge my eyes anyway and extended the look off my eyelashes to emphasize the look of my character.
After getting a good selection of different cartoon characters I started to include colour on the shiny side of the paper by using blending pens on layout paper. These pens helped me to create a whole new look for my character and gave me a chance to use a new material I haven't used before. In my opinion the pens are not easy to use as I feel that when Ive used them they create a patchy and stained look therefore I don't think they suit my character and I wont be using them.
However the opposite side of the layout paper is different. On this certain side the pens arnt as runny and you can't blend them, as you can see in the photo below it lets you use more bold and solid colours. This links with my comic strip and my character as this is how I want it all to look. I experimented with many different colours and styles on my character ideas so that I could see how she would look depending on the colour tones. Certain areas I just filled in the area with a light scribble I did this so it wasn't as bright but was still effective with colour and added highlights to the drawing. However with other areas I fully coloured them in to make them bold e.g the yellow hair and the purple clothes. In my final illustration of my comic strip I am defiantly going to use blending pens but not on the blending side of the paper.
After getting a good selection of different cartoon characters I started to include colour on the shiny side of the paper by using blending pens on layout paper. These pens helped me to create a whole new look for my character and gave me a chance to use a new material I haven't used before. In my opinion the pens are not easy to use as I feel that when Ive used them they create a patchy and stained look therefore I don't think they suit my character and I wont be using them.
However the opposite side of the layout paper is different. On this certain side the pens arnt as runny and you can't blend them, as you can see in the photo below it lets you use more bold and solid colours. This links with my comic strip and my character as this is how I want it all to look. I experimented with many different colours and styles on my character ideas so that I could see how she would look depending on the colour tones. Certain areas I just filled in the area with a light scribble I did this so it wasn't as bright but was still effective with colour and added highlights to the drawing. However with other areas I fully coloured them in to make them bold e.g the yellow hair and the purple clothes. In my final illustration of my comic strip I am defiantly going to use blending pens but not on the blending side of the paper.
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