Brett Bean!!

Brett Bean is a character designer who's work I love! 

There are so many variations in his character's, whether animal or human, with such strength in the sense of personality in the characters.

He has been my main inspiration for my Underworld characters in my pre production project.

I also love his background designs due to his use of textures & patterns in the visuals.

DEEP - 101 Dalmations Style & Copies.

The dominant style of the Deep scene I'm working on is 101 Dalmations - references in a previous post! - so I attempted to copy some of the images from the mansion.

I am not so great at painting... but this style allows me to practice my water colour skills in a less photo realistic style! The design is more to do with texture & lined shadows as opposed to blended colours & shadows.

There is also some visibility of lines & paint strokes which I also had some fun 'attempting' to create the appearance of texture & such.

I also played with using marker pens but I failed a bit & it just looks a bit rubbish due to the tones of colour & the lack of blending in the colours...

But in getting into the style has definitely helped, particularly with the colour scheme & how the lighting works. Also found I preferred the fine liner look as opposed to paint or pencil as it allowed for more detail...