The Three Little Pigs (First Draft)
Using shape language of circles, triangles, and squares to convey the different personalities of the three little pigs.
The straw house pig is constructed from circles, giving him a softer look to reflect a more sensitive personality.
The stick house pig is constructed with a a triangular/teardrop shape, giving him a sharper look reflecting his more blunt, energetic, and over-confident personality.
The brick house pig is constructed with a square body to give him a more stable look, reflecting the responsible and reliable character of himself and his building material of choice.
The Three Little Pigs (Second Draft)
Keeping the shape language from the first draft and experimenting with different poses and expressions.
The Three Little Pigs: The Big Bad Wolf (First Draft)
Playing with the character and personality of the Big Bad Wolf, turning it into a more comedic character while using some triangular shapes in her head to maintain that feeling of danger. Although she is a more character who doesn't know her own strength now, she is still a threat to the pigs.
The Three Little Pigs: The Big Bad Wolf (Second Draft)
Taking the Big Bad Wolf in a new direction, portraying her as a wolf cub rather than a full grown wolf. Drawing inspiration from the character design of rubber hose animated characters like Felix the Cat, using a bean-shaped body. In this iteration of the character, the Big Bad Wolf is more of an annoying neighbor to the pigs than a malicious character.
The Three Little Pigs: The Big Bad Wolf (Third Draft)
Combining the character design of my first draft with the personality of my second draft. A more blue hue was given to the wolf's gray pelt to liven her color palette up more following class critiques of the gray used in draft 1 being too achromatic.
The Ugly Duckling: Mother and Normal Ducklings (First Draft)
Basing color palettes off of real ducklings with some having darker markings, and others being fully yellow. Although the siblings are "normal" compared to the Ugly Duckling, they have their own awkward quirks like varying sizes of legs, beaks, and flippers.
The Ugly Duckling (First Draft)
Playing with different head shapes, postures, and expressions for the Ugly Duckling and his swan form. Though I was satisfied with my duckling designs, my swan felt too generic and needed more work to get the Ugly Duckling's personality to show through.
The Ugly Duckling (Second Draft)
Continuing to play with the awkwardness of the Ugly Duckling's siblings. The Ugly Duckling's gray feathers were given more of a purple/indigo hue to avoid his color palette being achromatic and to reflect his more gloomy mood through color. As the Ugly Duckling grows up, he becomes a swan and has white feathers, but there is still a purple hue to the shadows in his feathers. He has transformed, but he is still the same duck.
The Tortoise & The Hare: The Tortoise (First Draft)
Using a lot of squares and rectangles in the construction of the tortoise. His shape skeleton reflects his stability, strength, and endurance.
The Tortoise & The Hare: The Hare (First Draft)
Triangular shape skeleton to reflect the hare's speed and more impulsive, intimidating personality. His design and color palette is based off of real hares and their size and strengths compared to typical rabbits.
The Tortoise & The Hare (Second Draft)
Not many changes made to the characters themselves, experimenting with difference poses and how they would interact with each other. How would they look side-by-side while warming up for the big race?
The Tortoise & The Hare (Second Draft)
More experimentation with poses. The tortoise keeps marching on towards the finish line as the hare tries to catch up.
