Just a couple of ideas for how I want the different illustrations to look like.
I also had about five pages to scan in of my progression of the character but my scanner isn’t working with my new laptop right now.
I realized I never actually told the story of my character:
It started off as three identical triplets. At first you only see two and you see them getting ready for something and there is music quietly beginning in the background. As they put on their make up, dress up in costume-ish clothes, and fix their hair, they pass around photos of two men and a gun, a knife and a long cigarette. The one that I’ve been character designing(Sister #2) smiles at her sister, who would have been dressed in a Victorian outfit, and they leave the small room and out onto the street where children are running around trick or treating. The sisters walk down together to a large Halloween bash and enter the building where hazy smoke, laughter, and dancing is going on, the music becomes the loudest here as if the real story has just begun. The sisters slowly slink around the large dance floor until their eyes catch one man, one of the men in their photographs. Sister #1 smiles and stalks over to him, getting him to follow her after dancing slightly. The man, though, is oblivious to the other sister walking behind them as they leave the dance floor and go into a quiet hallway. Sister #2 stays quietly behind them until the opportune moment, or her sister backed against the wall the man’s back facing her. Taking out the knife seen earlier, Sister #2 kills the man and they drag him further down the hall, stealing his costume which Sister #1 puts on.
They return to the party, arm in arm and continue on with the party until they the second man from their photos walk by, a small envelope in his hand and in the other, a key. Sister #2, who was pretending to lazily smoke the long cigarette perks up and Sister #1 gets up quickly, following the man towards the same hallway, trying once again to seduce him while in man #1′s costume. Distracted and confused the other man is taking aback by Sister #1′s advances thinking it was the man. Sister #1 falls to her knees, sending man #2 into bewilderment but the scene cuts back to Sister #2 who is now smoking in their direction. With a glance around the room, she points her cigarette at the man, taking her time to aim and taking a deep breath, she blows into the cigarette, a dart flying out and hitting the man in the neck. Successfully the man is knocked out and Sister #2 goes to help her sister in stripping the man from his costume, taking his key and his envelope as Sister #2 puts on man #2′s costume. Sister #1 helps her fix the cowboy hat she now has and hands her the gun discreetly. With a small reassuring smile, Sister #1 turns towards the party, like a guard and Sister #2 heads towards the door man #2 was heading for. With the key in hand, she knocks quietly before unlocking the door entering.
The room is a large, well furnished office, a dark, mahogany table settled at the end of the room with a small, mousy looking pouring over some papers, the desk is cleared off except for a record player that seems to be playing the song we’ve been hearing from the start. The camera pans around the room as to see the lavish office and stops at woman who looks exactly like the other two Sisters except she is handcuffed, hands pulled above her head and she’s sitting on the floor in a mess. Their eyes meet and an understanding is passed through them. Sister #2 walks over to the man at the desk, presumably the head boss of whatever it is he controls. Sister #2 hands him the envelope which he opens and reads, a document he signs and then hands it back to Sister #2. As she takes the envelope back, her arm tenses, still in the air, envelope hanging limply from her hand. She had since reached behind her and time slows as she pulls out the gun from behind her, pointing it the boss’s head and firing one single shot.
The man falls back from the force of the shot and not wasting any time Sister #2 yanks off the hat from her head and wipes of the mustache they had painted on her face as she rushes to help Sister #3 out of her restraints. The record playing on the record player reaches an end, the only thing discernible from the background is the party outside and the noise of the record player, playing a vinyl that’s already ended. The two sisters share a smile and Sister #2 helps the other sister up, carefully walking out of the room.
And that’s it. That was probably really confusing but, it works out in my head. I can’t tell you why I didn’t draw Sister #1 in any of the above stuff, probably because I’ve been focused on getting the design right.
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March 31, 2010 at 6:34 pm
cbelland
Holy Moly, you are correct: the story is confusing. You HAVE to draw all of the characters (at least quickly) so that we have an idea of the whole “look” (even though we may never see all of the characters in the piece you create for the class).
You need to loosen-up with your drawings–it feels like you are getting locked into design decisions too early in the process (like how to shade the character instead of her overall silhouette). Look at your favorite movie (Triplets) and look at each sister: each silhouette is different: if you fill-in each sister, you can still tell which one is which… you need to find this for each of your sisters.
Don’t post that you have five pages to scan but you didn’t scan because of a technical error (especially when you have access to scanners all over campus).