Character Designs

For my figure drawing class my instructor wanted to try a new assignment with character designs. The assignment was that we had to come up with two characters one male and female. These characters had to be adults, not children nor senior citizens. Through the project the class had a critique. At that time we had to talk about the character's background story and answer questions like, "Why are they like this? What made them like this? What's their favorite color? Food?" and so on. The answers to these questions helped design the appearance of the character to tell a better story.

My female was a girl of about 23 or 24 named, Olivia . She was shy, awkward and a bit of a bookworm. Because she was shy, she liked to hide behind books or in her big fuzzy sweaters.  She majored in English and writing and worked in an antique shop. 

My male character was the weird next door neighbor named Shawn. He was very outgoing and loved to do skateboard stunts that never ended well. He cared little about his appearance and said "radical" a lot. He was 24 and lived in a duplex that his dad owned. However, living by himself didn't teach him anything about being a responsible adult.

 Once we had the two characters down, we had to combine the two to create a third character.

This is Amelia. I imagined her to be some sort of long lost child of the the other two characters (from the future). She was 19 with the smarts of her mom and outgoing like her dad. She would be awkward at times but she never let that slow her down. Before she went out with friends she always made sure her homework was done. Her favorite colors are yellow and purple.