Once we had the meeting with Sophie about colour palettes and thumbnails, the team has finally come down to the conclusion of a finalised colour palette that was picked out by a survey which can be found here.
The next step from here is to remake Yami’s design and fit the environment a bit more. As the background uses no line weight variety and little shading, I looked at a couple of artists that have the same art style as Izzy’s. Once I had looked at these artists, I didn’t bother with a mood board and just switched between drawings whilst I was drawing Yami. Here are the images I used and I mainly used @freshboba_tae on Instagram as reference for this new art style (I have been a follower of her art for a very long time, she inspired me a lot growing up!).
Process:
This time, I wanted to approach my design process a bit more different. By this I mean that I wanted to complete a sketch on Procreate and import it to another software that supports vector layers. This is because I have noticed that in Procreate, whenever I slightly transform the drawing, the pixels become a bit deformed and it doesn’t look very nice, especially if the main attraction will be the character. I tried to do the drawing on Adobe Illustrator on iPad, but I wasn’t familiar enough with the brushes to change them, so I went to ClipStudioPaint to complete the line art layers.
Base sketch (Procreate)
Although it isn’t as noticeable here, but the pixels get quite deformed, hence why I moved to a different software.
Line art
For the line art. I had to change the default g-pen to decrease the pressure output. This is to make it so when I draw, the line weight won’t be affected by the amount of pressure I put down so it stays relatively consistent.
Base colours
Rendered
Against the background
