Posing Roughs
Posing roughs
Costume Roughs
Updating while I sip tea and watch a snowstorm outside, and be damn glad I don't have to go anywhere today. So this is the second batch of character designs, this time featuring our other main character. His name is Daimon, and he's a demon, and rather easy to get along with.
Designing costumes for Daimon is much easier than for Ashley. For one thing, Daimon never wears colour, so I don't have to worry about matching anything or using the right ones. There isn't really an in-story reason for this... I guess it's just because it looks cool. The only colour Daimon has on him at all is his eyes, which are blue, so if I ever use colour I use a shade of that. When I colour him I usually use blues to shade his hair so it's different than his skin. There IS an in-story reason for all of this but I'm not explaining it now.
He also has a sort of uniform he has to wear. Well, I guess it's not really a uniform, just that his clothes need to be suitable for you know, fighting monsters. So I started with some of the things you usually see him wearing, like a good pair of boots. In these rough sketches and in some past drawings you'll see his boots with these big buckles on the front - I always had them just because I liked the way they looked. But over the years I found that these boots sadly do not exist, at least not in a sensible, monster fighting fashion. So I got rid of them in favour of more realistic strappy ones, and added in buckles on those so they stand out.
I don't usually get fancy with pants on male characters, just because guys tend not to get fancy with pants period. Girls have all kinds of options for what to put on the lower regions but guys pretty much just have pants or shorts. I once again tried to decide on whether to put his pants in his boots or outside, and went with inside for pretty much the exact same reason I did with Ashley: it looked better and made more sense. The belt was a necessity - Daimon always wears this belt on the job. It's like Batman's belt, it's got all kinds of useful crap in it.
The sweater, oddly enough, was where I had some problems. I knew he had to wear a sweater of course, because he's a sweater type of guy and because it was going to be cold on the Lake. I envisioned a kind of millitary sweater - you know, those grey ones with the patchy things on the shoulders? That's what I wanted. But when I drew it, I just didn't like the way it looked. Just goes to show you with costume designing, like with actual clothes, sometimes things look cool on the rack and look terrible on the body. So I went with just a plain grey turtleneck.
Overall, Daimon's costume is rather plain, but has kind of a sleek and sensible feel to it, which suits him. I don't know if I mentioned this when designing Ashley, but I always try to design the two of them to compliment each other - Ashley wears a lot of colour while Daimon has none, Ashley goes for cushy and bulky while Daimon is form fitting. I did some action sketches to see how he looked. Action sketches for Daimon are pretty easy as well, since he fights, so it's easy to pick poses for him.
Next week I'll have the turn sheet, expression sheet, head turn, and colour final for Daimon.
Colour Final
Expressions
Head Turn
Turn Sheet
