Character Design

Here is my designing and researching process so far for my character design project:

 Rough story outline for a short film:

 Facial emotion poses:

Design and shapes of Heather:

My starting rough doodles of cartoonyish bears that I did before everything else:

Study of brown bear to help develop the design and make it more informed by real bears:

Old alternative clothes design:

More information about her and her environment:

Another brown bear study to inform Heather's profile shape and design:

Unfinished action poses, two different versions as I'm still working out how she looks from the side.

More doodles of Heather from after the first design:

Pigeon character design:

Old alternative backstory:

Old alternative face design:

Some doodles in lessons to practice shapes and posing:

The bottom middle and middle right drawings are of Heather's shapes, as I was practicing drawing her from a low perspective, from above and also low to the side. Her simpler shapes will really help when drawing a dramatic concept painting for her story.