Week 1 - The Team
Here's my character design from the first Toolkit 2 session - we were tasked in groups with coming up with a team of characters that looked like they belong together. The group I was in decided to go with a D&D theme, and I was tasked with designing the leader of the team. This guy isn't the smartest or the strongest, but he is very charismatic, the glue that holds the team together. He's also a bard, fitting the D&D theme. I decided to finish this one digitally so that I could quickly scribble/ paint the bust shot on the left to figure out the colours, as well as to achieve some really clean cell shading to which I added a purple overlay and airbrushed over on some add/multiply layers to make the colours and shading really pop. The gold metallic effect was way easier on the watercolour style sketch on the left, but I managed to achieve a similar effect on the main piece of artwork as well. The rest of our group/team seemed to be making monkey guys (based o...