Revisualizing Mary's Design concept

 Pre-Production - New Concept design for Mary

Carrying on from this morning's comment, I decide to spend today working on some new concepts for Mary's hair and clothes. My supervisor suggested I created  a template for Mary, and try a few idea and clothes idea because Mary looks fairly similar to Lilly.

The image above is the template I drew  ideally aiming to get some personality from the  frontal pose. While the profile was mainly so I could draw the details of the hair from that angle. When it came to actually drawing I was a little lost. Her original hair style was mid length while her fringe would come just above her eyes. However, she didn't give off a sport/wild or outdoor feeling.

I resorted back to anime references of characters I knew had allot of energy to them. Though many of these hairstyles either resembled the one I already had or something closer to Lilly's.  So I decide to Google search,  from this on a forum there few people talking about how they wear their hair as people who work outdoors. The majority put their hair into braids or ponytails,  one person particularly said why relating it to keeping their hair off of their neck and out of the way during hotter days. This resulted in me considering keeping Mary's hair mid length or short.

The above image was the first concept that came to mind, Her fringed remained the same but I decided to tie her hair to the right hand side. This is aimed toward the style its put in  ideally when she if facing forward  the tail will be resting in front and on her right shoulder. I also place her in more outdoor clothing.

In this next Image I decided try another concept on the fair making use of braids on her side bangs and creating a smaller ponytail. However times I've seen this done is normally on long hair, so i thought I'd try it on shorter hair. The result wasn't to pleasing, I also realized her fringe was now almost exactly like Lilly's. In this image I also played around with her top to make it more toward a tracksuit.

For the next image the type of sport Mary plays came more into play, I wanted to see how she would look in a cap, considering the advantages it would give her outdoors. Though, there is the issue of when she gets indoors I couldn't picture her leaving her cap on. The hair here was mainly shaped toward being able to fit through the claps in the back of it. I also decided to try shorting her top and adding a hood.

The last test came about because I wanted a example of how she might look when her hair was allot shorter, different from the back of Lilly's hair and A completely different fringe from before. I find I like this version but it would also be contested against the first concept.  after the initial drawings were complete  I began wondering how she would look in a cap along with adding a longer tail to the back.

 

I stopped here mainly because I realized there wasn't much more I wanted to try interns of clothes, There are two possibility here  for the hair I like and I will most likely experiment with them both and combining them but this would be on a template of just the face instead of a full body.

On another note the next few hours will be focused more toward refining the story and profiles so I can begun creating thumb nails and new storyboards.

Personal development portfolio-

Drawing ability is one of the known skills gaps for my project, I will be aiming to draw my  The characters more and trying to get the most out of the poses and hopefully get my drawing into a more dynamic result.  The images bellow are concepts that sprung up after working on Mary's new concept though it is more toward practice than relating to story beats like the previous pose drawings.