Week 1 Blog Post Character Creation

Character Inspiration

For my first ever weekly challenge I did in university, I have created a character themed from an apocalyptic wild west. When I was creating this character, I took some inspiration of known game characters. Those characters include Scorpion/ Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat games and Octane from Apex Legends.

I then launch Photoshop and start using the paint brush tool to create a rough outline of the character (adding specific bits later). I then created a colour pallet for skins, clothing, and extra within Photoshop.

I then started creating my character mainly using the paint tool. I wanted to make the character wear something light because he lives in a post apocalyptic wild west area where it’s hot and dry. I also wanted this character to have a liking to a game character he likes back when before the apocalypse happened. During the colouring of my character I have always kept in mind to create shadows, cloths creases and lighting within the character creation.

I wanted to create spice within the style of my character. For example, I added a mask with glowing eyes, extendable arms and a prosthetic leg made out of stain-less steel (This character likes Mortal Kombat so he made himself fit with the world he lives in).

This is the outcome of the weekly challenge. I have used darker shades of colour to create clothing creases and shade. I have also added some text that annotates the extra parts of the character’s abilities. I added a hot pink mohawk because its a contrasting colour to the metallic blue mask. Overall I have enjoyed making the character and love designing its style. What I can do to make it better will be the idea of adding more shadow and use more lighting within the art piece.