{"id":3921,"date":"2012-09-07T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:10:52","slug":"character-design-process-for-the-miizzzard-of-the-year-one-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/character-design-process-for-the-miizzzard-of-the-year-one-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Design Process for the Miizzzard of the Year One Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past week I’ve been working on a new character design, for the Miizzzard of the Year One Million. I’m cracking the lid open on my creative process a little by showing you the incarnations of this character, from oldest to newest.<\/p>\n

This design is a variation on a character I came up with for a comic back in 2010 that I never ended up making. I drew this in full color with no outlines in Photoshop:<\/p>\n

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I decided to follow this basic design but come up with a female version that also incorporates elements from the Miizzzard of the Year 2978. I started doing sketches like this one I posted a little over a month ago:<\/p>\n

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I did a couple of sketches on my lunch break this past Wednesday and liked this one:<\/p>\n

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Wednesday night I did a drawing with the fills and outlines how I want them in MangaStudio:<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t too happy with the proportions. I asked some friends what they thought. They said she looked like a half-naked cave-woman. Since that isn’t quite what I’m going for I did some more sketches on my lunch break. This is my favorite (I riffed on how Jonny Negron<\/a> draws hands):<\/p>\n

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Here’s the final color version:<\/p>\n

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It’s always been my plan to have multiple Miizzzards in my comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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