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Character Workshop

This work shop was inspired by Ian Mque’s concept art/ character designs. In this workshop we experimented with shapes created by ink and water. We were testing our imagination by creating random shapes and having to turn them into characters. This workshop was trailered to my theme robots.

We started off with by making a thee mixture, making sure that its 80% water with 20% ink. When it came to painting the watered ink on the paper we had to do fluid movement and to try not think about our actions making them spontaneous and natural. This was a challenge for me as I new my character is a robot and they should be geometric. A technique that helped me to overcome this was constantly turning the paper so you find it harder to create a humanoid object.

After the water had dried we then looked at what shapes we had created. It  took a a few minuets to see any form of shape that sparked ideas to design a robot. Once I could see something with in the shape of the ink, I then had to go over it with a fine liner. While we were doing this we had to make sure we were using as much of the random hasp as possible. 

Once we were happy with our outline of a character we then went back into the mapped character and added more watered ink. Depending on how dark you want the shadows on your character you can change the ration of water to ink. When I had all the shadow added I got a small tip fine liner and worked back into the image adding in small details, such as buttons, wires, scratches etc.

Depending If you were happy with the outcome of your character you could leave it and it would be finished. But you had the option to go into photoshop and clean up the image getting rid of excess ink or mistakes with the lines. I didn't want to do this as I liked it looking rough on the paper and it added to the effect of it being an aged robot. Also I didn't want to the be a clean character on a crisp background as its only concepts to develop my idea for a character, therefore I left blotches of ink and pen marks on the paper so it didn't mislead the viewers into think it was a final product.

My results...