Final Major Project - Steam Punk Character Creation

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In this project I have been tasked to create a character using steam punk as my genre of style. 
I am really going to enjoy this project as I like the style of steam punk and I feel like I will do really well.

Action Plan

Week 1-Mind map and mood board creation also to be uploaded to my blog with reference images

 Week 2 -  detailed research about each theme i will look into. also to be uploaded to my blog with reference images

 Week 3- Research about cowboys and the different styles of clothing 

 Week 4 - Initial sketches as well as Silhouettes to be uploaded on to my blog with links to any images used.

 Week 5- Human anatomy research with sketches of anatomy. uploaded to my blog with links to images used.

 Week 6 -  Human sketches and some developed sketches of faces. 

Week 7 - Colour meanings and Artist Interpretations to all be uploaded to my blog with links. 

 Week 8 - Experiments of head angles and textures. 

 Week 9 - Final research of any steampunk themes and styles 

 Week 10 - Final drawing of character to be printed out on an A3 piece of paper 

 Week 11- blog updates of any needed things. 

 Week 12- Evaluation of whole project on blog.

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Here I have a mind map for my ideas for a character creation. where i go into detail in what kind of character themes i am looking at along with why i like them
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Here is my mood board reflecting on what influenced me to do a steam punk cowboy for my project

Here i have some information summarising what steam punk is and how the term came around and what it was used for. 

link to the resource: •Link: http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/what-is-steampunk/ 
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Here is some cos play of western themed steam punk this cos play relates a lot to my design as I'm doing a steam punk cowboy for my character.
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Here i have another slide on steam punk however i talk about the use of steam punk within games and what i think about it.

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Here is another slide which talks about steam punk but this one is about movies and the use of steam punk and how it effects the movie.



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I have started the process of making a sketch of a character. this start sketch is of a humanoid cowboy it's very basic as you can see 
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Here is a more up to date sketch of my previous post as you can see this sketch has a lot more detail. but this is a general look of how my character will be.
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Here is a sketch of a human i have been working on it's only rough but i honestly like my creation. and i will develop it more
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Here are two silhouettes what i made in Photo shop they aren't the best however they get my point across on what i want to do.  
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Here is a feedback sheet telling me what i should add more and from this i will add some more sketches and silhouettes to start with.
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Here are a few more Silhouettes two are cowboy themed and the other is an animal theme as you can see 
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Here is a sketch of possible design of how my final characters face will look without detail, however it's a rough idea
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Here are some Life pictures of poses which i will possibly be using in my character design. i went for a standard A form for one of the pictures as it shows of the whole body. however in another picture i went for a more dynamic pose with a lot more angles to show all the different shapes

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Here is two drawings of body proportion using Reilly's method I personally never liked this method but i will give it more goes in the future.
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Here i have Reilly's method again we were using a secondary source for out life drawing exercise i personally still not a fan of this method. 
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Today we did life drawing exercises and we were in groups posing for each other and drawing here is the outcome for my drawings.
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here is a mood board of cowboy clothes which i may try for my character to see which one i like best
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Here is my character design as you can see i am quite far through in the process of making my character. as well as i went for the suit look for my character as i think it fits the back story of my character.
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As I'm doing a human character i have looked a lot at the human anatomy and this image has helped me with ensuing i have muscles in the correct places.

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Here is a mood board for the idea phase of designing boots for my character I've seen some interesting design what i will design
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This is picture taken by Howard Schatz to show all of the body compositions of an Olympic athlete. as well as to show that there is no overall perfect body compositions however these Athlete's have perfect body compositions for their preferred sports. for example a runner would have an Ectomorph body type meaning their body is very lean because it's perfect for their sports. How this relates to my character is that he has the perfect body for what he does and in this case it is, infiltrating the town he was kicked out of so he has to be very agile as well as able to fight his way out of any situation.

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Here is some work from Petrauskas they do a lot of art based around people and cowboys steam punk art, and i personally find there art really good. As you can see in the pictures above there theme fits my style of Cowboy's however it has gone with a lot more of mechanical form and the colours are of a lower saturation however this helps me with my design due to i know the limit i want to go to with the mechanical part of my design.
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Here is some more research on steam punk cowboy artists and this one has a lot in common with mine with the face mask and when i was originally going to have a top hat. however this design has the type of textures i will be looking for in my design and the colour also are in the same pallet as mine

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Here is an mood board for my robotic arm design which i may choose to use on my final piece once i get to that stage, of my art i really think the robotic arm will give it an exotic look. 
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           Here is an iteration sketch sheet of robotic arms which i may choose i never knew which       design to go with so hopefully in my next character update you will see the one i chose.

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here is an updated version of my character i think it's coming along nicely I've added in cowboy boots which was a hard task but i over came it.
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Here is my picture with shape dynamics. these triangles represent Aggression and masculinity. although my character looks young i will add facial hair on to him. but all these triangles does effect my character's personality
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Here I have the colours which i will be using in my character design, I have wide variety of colours and i tried to use a lot of low saturation colours as they have a strong resemblance to power and curiosity
for example Black has a link to power and as my character was the sheriff of the town i think it fits well. as he was classes as authority and a higher up. however now he has been kicked out of his town and has to be very sneaky he wears a bandanna which is red due to the colour represents the meaning of sneaky.
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Here i used a technique where you first draw out your beard on your character’s face and once you are done, you then go to filters “Noise/ add noise” you then choose how much noise you wish to add. after you have done that you then choose your marquee tool and choose the circular one. you then draw a circle around your beard and then go to filter- “blur/ radial blur” and make sure you have zoom ticked once that's done just press okay and you will have your texture of a beard. 
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Here is my first leather design i may use i manged to come up with this texture by using filters and applying the glass filter. 
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Here is my hair texture i decided to go with dreads as my guy is of a black ethnicity
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Here is my Leather Texture design what I did to get this texture was I found a picture of leather and had it as a reference and used the same colours. Once I was happy with the colours i went to texture gallery and chose the texture what gave me a leather look
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Here is an artist interpretation of a robotic leg although it's not steam punk it's a start of a interpretation. however i am going to move on to a 

Here is my texture design for my clothing for my characters clothes. 
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Here is an up to date picture of my final piece i just need to add textures and colour to a few more places to finalise my piece.
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Here is a metallic texture i made for my character design. I'm not 100 percent sure how i feel about this. 
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Here is the texture which i am using for my clothes for my final design as it gives a very good linen texture.
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Here are three different designs for the head of my character's side view one is with out texture and then the other being with texture. 
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Here is a zoomed in version of my metallic texture what i am using for the arm of my character i think it is a pretty good texture design.
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In this picture there is a blown up segment of my Leather texture i am using for my gauntlet and what i will be using for my cowboy boots too
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Here is my 7 head measurement for my character at first it was slightly small but i managed to fix that problem and enlarge my drawing. 
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Here is a side view, front view and back view of my characters head, i have modified the side view a bit due to it never looked right. 
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Here in these pictures there is a representation of the art style which i am working in. the art style is SCI-FI Realism, and these pictures are references of how they art style can be used and perceived.
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Here is research about Steam punk and the style is it classed as also along with HG Wells's involvement within the genre too.
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Here is my artist interpretation of a cowboy style art piece. this is helpful for me because it allows me to see how other people think about designing cowboy's which i can then use some of there techniques.
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Here is my other pose for my character. i had to use a reference image for the side view of the dreads as you can see in the picture. i found it quite difficult to get the correct angle with the hair as it's from the side. Although I managed to over come the challenge. 
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Here is my final design with 3 different poses for my character as you can see in the side and back view my character doesn't have a lasso because i thought it looked better without it in the the other poses.
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Evaluation


The task for my project was to create a Creature or Character within the style of steam punk and to create a turnaround for the creature or character as well. We used several software's such as Photo shop, PowerPoint and Word document all of these were used to boost my ideas and help to develop them as well. as well as i used Digital painting where i would use a lot of different techniques such as motion blur and the noise features to create the design for my clothes. and Paper and pencil for my drawings too. How i was influenced during coming up for the idea of my design was the from the film "Wild Wild West" and the game "West Worlds" these two influences have a strong cowboy themed throughout the whole movie and Series. 
as well as those two influences I already had a interest in cowboys as I always thought they were cool, however I came across a few problems throughout the start process of my character, as i never knew how to start of the body of my character because i never had any references to go off originally, but i manged to get a life pose of a fellow student so i could have an idea of how to approach my design using the model pictures. Once i had the body down for my character i started to look at the different art styles i possibly could go to then, I came across Sci-Fi Realism an example of this art style would be from the Game called "Halo" which is a very popular game which involves space soldiers from the distant future. What helped me in the design of my character was research about cowboys and steam punk genre so I could have a general knowledge of how I want my character to look and what was appropriate to use with my character. and what wasn't over the top. i had a lot of secondary research and resources to help with my hair for my character as it was quite challenging. also I had research for cowboy boots as i never knew how to draw them correctly, But i manged to over come this task with practise as well as iteration sketch sheets 
How I think I could of made my project easier as well as more enjoyable, I could done a lot more referencing of the stuff I needed. As well as i could of experimented with a lot more ideas and designs of characters and in the future I will spend a lot more time on doing re search than focusing all on my character due to i wasn't able to give a correct representation on how cowboys looked. If I had the chance to improve or to develop my design anymore I would focus more on the skin for my character as I originally I wanted to have my character Dual heritage (Mixed Race) but he came more out of as a tanned white. however it still does fit my design and i am still proud of my work and i am happy with the final outcome   

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