Sketchbook: Chloe

mchocholek · Jan 2019

Recently I was asked to design and model a character for friend so that he could have something new to rig in his portfolio, and he was kind enough to let me share the process and final model for my own. The main point of this rig was to have a cute character that he could do a really nice facial rig for, and we decided that a centaur hipster girl would be a lot of fun to do!

This will be dedicated to showing the process of that character, starting from the first initial sketches going all the way to the final model.

mchocholek · Jan 2019

Because he wanted a character with an appealing face, I decided to start from there rather than design everything at once. I drew up a couple different faces initially, then used his critiques to explore a few more concepts until we found something that he liked. We ended up going with face #1 in the second image. Next up will be the clothing design for her

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mchocholek · Jan 2019

Second round of designs: Clothing! Wasn't too much in the specifics that he wanted here, so I found some styles that I thought were simple but still fashionable. Ended up going with No.3 and did some more exploration on the necklace. Went with necklace 01 for the final concept there.
Originally I planned on doing variations for the deer body, but he ended up liking the base one here! So instead of body designs next I got to skip straight ahead to the antler designs, which will be the next update.

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mchocholek · Jan 2019

Next was the antlers. Ended up picking picking number 2 in the second image, worked better with the hat and should translate pretty easily into the 3D stage

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mchocholek · Feb 2019

Next up was to decide the color palette this character would have. Here is the first round of exploration.

mchocholek · Mar 2019

From the first round we picked a couple that piqued his interest to further do some color exploration on

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mchocholek · Mar 2019

Ended up going with one of the natural color schemes and started designing clothes next. I was fond of a couple of these, and I'll probably make extra skins using them!

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mchocholek · Apr 2019

Some minor changes to nail down the final design

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mchocholek · Apr 2019

The final character sheets

Sketchbook: Chloe

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