Character Designs- Original Design

This is the original character design for my partner Katies Character. I made this by initially cutting out Katies face and hair from a photograph of her. I did this using various tools in Photoshop such as the "Lasso Tool", "Polygonal Lasso Tool" and the "Magnetic Lasso Tool". This effectively made sure that I had 2 seperate layers. One layer of Katies face and another layer for her hair.

Once I had the two layers, I made sure that Katies face was on top so that the hair didn't block it. Inspired by the British Gas adverts I wanted to make a character with a live action face but then a cartoon body. I begun my test by drawing a generic body for Katie, I didn't like this as a character design as it looked boring and not very good overall, but it helped me see how Katies character would look without a real life body. Seeing as this design looked slightly like a cartoon, going back to this design I added a layer effect to the body of this character.

This effect added a black outline round the character depending on whichever layer I applied the effect to, I think this improved the character design in terms of a "cartoony" look. However I was still not satisfied with the design overall.