Get Something From Almost Nothing

When it comes to characters, a silhouette can be extremely informative, telling everything from their age to their attitude on life. Because it's essentially just a shape, you have to lead the eye to fill in the details and information itself, using what you do have to make the suggestions.


I might not have been thinking quite that far when I created these silhouettes for an assignment two years ago, but I think I understood the gist of attempting conveying a character and personality through a silhouette. Shape, angularity, posture, hair, props, actions and more all went into each of these character prompts. We were given the description and the template for the "album pages" and told to portray the characters. Take Aunt Adelaide the fortune teller and compare her to Aunt Reba the hairpiece saleswoman (below). They both have sharp features and almost angular faces, with overall round forms, however they both feel like very different people. Reba looks very prim and proper, possibly prudish because her posture is perfect, and everything from her clothes to her hair is exactly in it's place and fits perfectly - because of this and the position of her fingers she feels very stiff, and thus stuck up. Yet, Reba also feels like she's trying to hard, possibly because of the fact that she's trying on her own wares. Adelaide, on the other hand feels much more laid back and much less put together. This is conveyed through her slouch, the rumples and folds in the clothes that don't seem to fit quite right, and the hair that seems to be not-so-carefully done - another detail is the string the crystal ball is hanging from, which tells you that she's not too honest in her trade.


So even the slightest differences between the silhouettes of different characters can have a huge difference.

That being said, were I to be given this project now, it would likely be done rather differently just from what I've learned between then and now.

Don't Sneeze Too Hard

Over my Christmas break, I got together with a friend and we spent the evening seeing if we could make a full comic each in that amount of time. I decided to do something small and silly - I didn't even really plan this out out very much (In fact, I got done with page three and went "Shoot...I don't know what to do next")

So, here we are. My 4 page, quickly done, mini-comic.

Excuse Me, But Do I Know You?

Well that was a lovely hiatus in which I worked way too much, finished a semester of school (only 3 left!), got engaged (To the wonderful mind and voice behind the Public Servants Quarters ) enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and break from school, worked entirely too much again, and started a new semester of school.

And here I am back again! Though only one image for today, because I think I'd rather have more frequent smaller posts than large posts that only happen once in a blue moon.

This image is from the 3D design class I took last semester, and more specifically from the Soft Sculpture project, which we were to use in a website design.