Specialism

I decided that to add motion to the original scenery, I am going to have some butterflies flying around the trees. Then when the scenery turns dark they will go red, and disappear. I started by looking into butterflies, I chose for the butterfly that I am using is going to be a blue morpho, this is because they are very distinctive and look surreal which is the effect I want to have in the sunny scenery. I began by drawing a general shape of a blue morpho, I did this using the symmetry tool. I then coloured it by looking at a reference image. I then wanted to create a dark version that I would switch for the dark version, when the person runs past. I did this by duplicating the butterfly, then changing the hue and saturation to make it red.

Originally for the scenery of the piece I wanted it to be similar to the river in York, this is because it had the exact type of view that I wanted, it has a path to run on, grass, trees and a river. However, since I am currently in Newcastle, it is very difficult to find reference images to base my drawings off of. I was on a jog around the area that I live in, and found a forest I didn't realise was there 😂 and realised that it was also the perfect scenery, so I took lots of photos of it for my reference images. I then made them images into contact sheets.

I began drawing the character by drawing a basic sketch of what I think the character would look like. I then built upon my initial sketch to create a character closer to what I wanted for my final one. I then drew an even better version of the body, and then one at a side angle, as to have the character running I needed the body to be from each angle. After drawing the body, I then drew the face to show exactly what I want it to look like. After this I practiced drawing arms by the joints, so I could visualise it. I did this because for Character animator to recognise the body parts they need to be drawn this way.