1. Game Art Year 1 Internet research mood board

3. Ideas generation mood board

4. Extra information specifically focusing on the armour she would wear.

5. Final Idea of the character with
detailed explanation.

6. Top: Two rough
ideas of characters,
what they look like
what gear they
would carry, what
kind of tech they
would use.
Below: Final
character idea,
different views from
the front, from the
back, from the side.
Showing armour
styles, weapons
carried hair style,
facial expressions
and facial and body
structure and shape.
Additional
information on Oren
the characters’
brother to the very
bottom right.

7. Left: Close up of previous shown
character pose, and shown below an
environment sketch of the world
she would inhabit in the story.

8. Rough idea for character storyboard and a overview of characters that could be
included in the story

9. Final Idea for Character Storyboard

10. Game Art Year 2

11. Study of a moth’s face close up.
The piece was created using pencil originally then a picture of it was taken
and stuck in the sketchbook so it wouldn’t smudge will all the excess
pressure and graphite applied especially in the thicker layers put down for
the eye and the frills and antennae.

12. Top Three pieces of work are
sketches of birds in flight and the
side of an owl’s head.
Bottom: Water colour study of an
owl’s eyes, using pencil as a rough
guideline first.

13. Left: Water colour butterfly completed in less than
thirty minutes.
Right: oil pastel piece of a butterfly’s wing close up
completed over two full lessons of an hour and a
half.

14. Drawings of insects all
completed in pencil.
Each piece under fifteen
minutes.

15. Manchester Museum insect
sketches and the drawing of a
sparrow completed in pencil.

16. First biro study of the image of an
eagle head.

17. Study of an image of a lizard done in
biro pen.
It took around an hour to complete.

18. Top: Study of a shield beetle, done in charcoal.
Below: 20 minute study of Conor Sherwin done in pencil.

19. Jason Shawn Alexander recreation,
drawn in pencil

20. Jason Shawn Alexander second
recreation. Materials used include
watercolour and acrylic paint.
Top: Extra creature drawings in biro and fine liner, taken from image research.
Bottom: Added extra information on research of insects, reptiles and birds, their scales and
skin, the way they move and fly, their anatomy etc.

22. Character Mood Board
Travels by multiple ways i.e. Plane and boat, off road vehicle.
Friends accompanying her have their own skills and traits that
help them.

23. Old fashioned
attire and
clothing can hire
a team or has a
team of friends
that accompany
her
Explores the most
dangerous places and has
travelling experience and
prowess with perilous
climbs, steep or unruly
terrain etc.
An explorer maybe hires a
ship as mode of transport
or owns a ship for her own
use, self made.

24. Character Pose Ideas and rough ideas
Character form and pose collection
shown above in different situations
both male and female.
Initial sketch idea for my explorer
character shown to the left. Soon after
drawing I decided I wanted to create a
Caucasian character instead.

25. Character development rough
sketches of the shoulders up.
Mainly focusing on facial features
and hair styles and length.
My favourite of the sketches which I
have chosen to progress with is the
bottom right.
Below are some ideas of the
developed idea.