Kayla - 2024 Char Illust. Blog

Wuhohhhhh, we're back again Welcome to this years blog!

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3 Thumbnails

Fo rthe 3 thumbnails these are what i came up with

(i have been told to tone it down by toby in the future for things like this, I'm gonna need to get used to just trying to have stick to simpler sketches)

last one was scribbled

thoughts of the voids power being like corrupted glitching type dealio

also magic glyphs(for now?) visualised magic like this is coooool man

Feedback

Posters with celeste sitting and the dual life-opposing ones were popular

Styles n colouring should probably be different for each form - in a lot of animes there can be a lot of differences between the characters civilian forms and their powered up forms - mostly silhouettes but colours get swapped around in outfits and hair changes

Sitting

could add ordinary objects around celeste in the sitting one

Opposing dual life

should perhaps be moved left-up a bit and give the text more breathing room

could add glyphs around

could do some linking arches around her

Transform imminent

Not as popularly talked about

Celestes back leg is iffy/being cutoff/blocked wierdly

Examples of chars with their alter egos (quickly grabbed refs)

Just realised that most of these are team leaders (U,U")

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NOTE - PHOTOSHOP ROTATE

R BUTTON AND CLICK DRAG OH MY GOD

Shift makes it snap to certain degrees

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Poster Layouts + Character posing

We've had a look into poster layouts/composition, some genre specific layouts, character posing and how to get good poses - take from irl(yourselves)

Legit Thumbnails can be a -struggle- for me, cranking out 18 of these when i tend to think alot when the focus is on doing proper layouts - spacing, alignment, etc AHHHHH

I also made notes and ive highlighted them in purple so i remember their there cause i can write in *tiny* when i want to whoop

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Char Silouettes

We've started on character silhouettes, and I've gone to trying to get a silhouette of a magical girls outfit (poofy skirts/large tails of coats+bodysuits, big hair

Research

I've just started gathering a bunch of magical designs +fantasy designs that I can think of of the top of my head and chucked refs in a doc, with things from classic and well known magical girl series like Sailor Moon, Precure, Madoka Magica and some magical girl inspired outfits+other fantasy outfits from some of the games I play (Hoyoverse games)

I very much like precure and madoka, madokas more mature/harsh(look at the posters) meanwhile precure is 'calm-brain empty-happy' time

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Infosheet

Update on infosheet here

100 words

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Ideation time!

Doing brainstorming at the moment, and I'm not tooooo sure if I wanna go a modern-futiristic route or full on fantasy adventure character or maho shoujou(jp magical girl anime style - i have a habit of watching a bunch of magical girl animes sometimes - madoka magica to precure)

Think I'm gonna go with the M. S route, like extreme flashy cute maho route

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Team Proj - Char analysis

The analysis' we did of the character Chili from Bluey

20 Questions - Bryn

Mood Board - Melusi

Word Cloud - Me

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Character Analysis

We're Analysing characteres now in groups, and I've been put on word cloud duty

This is what i've got at the moment - 13th, 2:36pm

Updated Ver. - 3:12pm

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G.P feedback

Final Designs are good!

They brought up the fact that us having a range of tree to bipedal in terms of our furst designs was probs a good thing, to give them an idea on what each would look like

Apparrently my storybook design was done really well and i adhered to the new brief well while also making it look storybook-friendly - which is great! being subjected to looking at books all the time at cleanup and being forced to read to kids so many times over the years has payed off :D

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Guesture Studyssss

isert imgs here

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Gesture Study

Time to analyse *movement poses*

*Anime and game dance hologram lives intensify*

All Splatoon Concerts

There have been 4 Splatoon 1 concerts, 5 Splatoon 2 concerts (one of which consisted of two separate days), and 2 Splatoon 3 concerts.

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Team Proj

We got some feedback

Specific to me the feedback i got:

4. Animation: We like the texture with the bark and the eyes. Just needs a body, or at least some limbs showing, and a less ridged posture

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Team Proj

The full piece with everyones designs initially

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Team Char Design

(Put quick sketches here)

For this illustration I went ahead and used Clip studio(portability for work+work at home) which I had a browse around for default brushes and ones posted by users.

I ended up using a lot of the default/in app brushes in the paint varieties and a couple grainy/textured store brushes

(refs here?)

Also fun thing is happening at times where after I go in and try to use my tablet buttons (undo and redo) or go to wacom to check bindings it'll say tablet not responding so I have to restart the computer so thats funnnn

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Team Proj. Update!

As I got put with the kids storybook style, for research I went to look at some popular childrens books in my house (thank god mum does home based daycare???) Which are Hairy McLairy, Wonkey Donkey and Nee-Naw. These childrens books are drawn more traditionally and have a certain grain to them which I think i could emulate somehow. (I still have nightmares of kids repeatedly saying nee-naw /j)

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Team project start

We're starting on the group project, and I've been given the task of illustrating in the kids storybook style

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Finished Practice

I've sorta been puttering away at this to get some practice in, a Pearl!