Entry 4: The Puppet Master Development- Part 2

Monday 20th October- Sunday 26th October 

Carrying on from last weeks’ blog entry I have created and finished the final Puppet Master and puppet designs. This blog explains the progression to this point.

After being told to do 3 final iterations, I immediately drew them up in differing poses in a Photoshop scene. The main issues that had to be addressed were changing the face design and making it more rotund, as the previous concept lost this idea from the first concept. I also varied the designs of the coat, just to give my team a little more variety to choose from.

I got these back to my team, and the final design combined the body from 3 with 2’s head stuck on. Taking this information I proceeded to draw up the final piece, puppets included. At this point Rachel had finished designing the second puppet, but gave me free rein on the colour palette selection.

I started by taking 3’s pose drawing and placed it in the scene. I then worked out the newer colour palette, and started to painting in the line art. I went for a slightly darker feel for colour choice wise, which I felt helped to bring out the evil intent of the Puppet Master more. 

From there I finished the colouring phase, scaled him down slightly and moved him to the centre. I then drew in basic test poses for both puppets, but wasn't totally happy with how they looked.

So I decided to use the pose of the robot from the original piece, but changed the shape slightly, as I felt he looked a little static, and could do with some diagonal edges to mix it up. I also redid the pose of the bear to match  with the robot but with the arms and standing in opposite directions, as I felt it made them both stand out better. For the colour scheme for the bear I went for the standard wood colour, but a cold icy blue for the angry face, as the head has both a happy and angry face. I also added the shadows in to ground the characters into the scene.

For the final touches I added a border, light background colour and signature to complete the artwork. I’ve shown the team this work and their all happy with it so I know now that this is the final design that has been set on.