THIS IS A COLLECTION OF IMAGES THAT I GATHERED FOR INSPIRATION AND REFERENCING, HELPING ME CREATED MY OWN CHARACTERS, ENVIRONMENTS AND STORYBOARDS.
At the bottom of this page theres is a section called Miscellaneous references this shows uncategorised pictures that helped me in my design process.
Persona 3: I used these images to help visualise ideas from my character profiles and stance, the multiple character expressions were pertinacity helpful.
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| This and the following image (2) were particularly helpful when designing the female android character "2.0" |
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| I used this image as a reference when doing my facial concepts for the character Maria. |
Final Fantasy 12: This selection of art works was very inspirational. The futuristic setting and mechanical cities/airships were very helpful when designing my maps and digital drawings of the city Calence and the ARC ship/spire. The way the character designs in these pictures are laid out were also quite inspirational.
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| This picture inspired the idea for my digital painting of the ARC ship resting atop the spire. The birds in the foreground resemble a path of such that leads to the ship above, this allowed me to visualise how I wanted to paint my own image. |
Magna Carta 2: These images are illustrated by my favourite artist, he specialise in character design. For all art works I ever create I look at work he has made. I do this mostly because of the over exaggeration of his characters physique and the way he perfects lighting and shadow with detailed brush techniques. I find his work to have a very unique style, which in tern inspires me greatly.
Odin Sphere: I found this Unique Cartoon style of these images rather intriguing. the multiple character sketches were also very helpful.
Infamous: I found these images particularly helpful for when I drew the two digital images of Leon using his environment manipulation power. The blue and yellow lightning coming from this characters hands were inspirational to my own designs.
Guilty Gear: When looking at these images i found that each character really spoke a unique personality, i found the art style very different and traditional to the others i looked at. This inspired me to really think carefully about my characters personalities and try to portray them well through my own unique style of drawing, i feel that i definitely achieved this.
Persona 4: This collection of Persona art work had very much the same effect on me as the Previous Persona art works. However this time around, i found the uncoloured character sketches very inspirational, in that i used the same kind of brain storming when sketching my own characters concept faces.
Final Fantasy 10: I used This collection of character designes as visual stimuli.
Final Fantasy 9: This beautiful collection of character, environments and airship designs greatly inspires me. I dont borrow elements of the hand painted or early steam-punk style, My inspiration is purely drawn from the beauty of the work. Also it just so happens this art is from my all time favourite game. I could look at this art for hours.
Rogue Galaxy: The multipul face expressions and character designs were useful for visual stimulation.
Lost Odyssey: I found the water colour complemented these character profiles nicely.
Miscellaneous references
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| I used this image as a Brush stroke reference when colouring my 2nd digital painting of Leon using his powers. I found that the simple strokes used in this image were not too complicated for me to emulate, as i feel my digital painting skills are low intermediate. |
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| I tried to use this image as a position refference in my first try at drawing Maria. I didn't like how it was turning out so i stopped that drawing. |
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| I took the middle section of this woman's body when coming up with concepts for the character 2.0. |
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| I used this and the following 2 images as reference when designing both Jack and Eden. |
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| This is a reference image i used in my first try at drawing Eden, i wanted to achieve a black man that looked kind of like this (Quite clearly based off Billy Bob Thornton) crossed with barack obama. I didn't like how it was going, so i decided to try a different approach to the character Eden. |
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| I used this collection of character profiles to help create my first drawing of Maria. |
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| This was the reference image i used when drawing the concepts/final version of the character Jack. |
