Week 5

This week, we were introduced to the character project. I was actually expecting something different to what we got for this project -  I thought we were to create a character that could fit into the environment piece, but it turns out we were given a story and had to create a character from that story.

From as soon as I read the story, I wanted to create the Monstrous Hunter. However, while I was planning things out in my mind, I didn't realise that I had to set the story/character in the era of Edo Japan. Luckily, this moved me into a better direction. While reading the story I envisioned the monstrous hunters to be these disgusting, masculine beings, but I thought I'd subvert that and try something different for the project. At least, this happened during the initial alchemy silhouettes I created. I decided to focus on a female character instead, and see what came of that. I found myself drawing dresses and more elegant designs than I did with the male base, and was able to focus even more on the shape of the dress when drawing on top of the template/guide directly.

I easily created the most in alchemy sketches for this project, with other 6 pages of alchemy sketches compared to the 1 or 2 I had with the first two projects. While I started strong with the project due to the little surprise, things started to trickle off, as they do with me, but I managed to keep a steady pace with the project. If it were possible, I'd make it so I had the motivation I have at the start of the project throughout the whole project, but that is a little difficult (and unreasonable) to achieve.

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