{"id":1539,"date":"2009-05-07T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T18:15:08","slug":"oyster-war-character-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Oyster War Character Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the few weeks since I wrapped up my <em>Amelia<\/em> pages to take on a number of tasks, among them getting back to work on <em>Oyster War<\/em>.\u00a0 One of the first things I wanted to address was my character designs.\u00a0 I really want to move away from the level of visual literalism that I&#8217;ve been using in things like <em>Midnight Sun <\/em>and <em>Ameila<\/em> and, for lack of a better word, get more &#8220;cartoony.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 But, man is it <em>hard<\/em>&#8230;. and it really shouldn&#8217;t be.\u00a0 If you were to look at most of my free drawing in my sketchbook, you&#8217;d see things that are far looser and less realistic than what&#8217;s become my &#8220;house style&#8221; of late.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are a few old characters revamped ( one, in ink there,\u00a0 left exactly the same) and a few new ones.\u00a0 I&#8217;m reasonably satisfied with these, although I seem to have real difficulty moving beyond my standard egg\/oval for a head shape.\u00a0 One reason I put my characters together in a single image like this is to establish the relative heights of each, but more important at the design level is also to make sure that each character has a distinctive shape.\u00a0 I try to imagine them all in silhouette and then ask myself if I&#8217;d be able to tell them apart even drawn relatively small.\u00a0 I think these satisfy that reasonably well at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"character_lineup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/character_lineup.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1540 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/character_lineup.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"character_lineup\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the few weeks since I wrapped up my Amelia pages to take on a number of tasks, among them getting back to work on Oyster War.\u00a0 One of the first things I wanted to address was my character designs.\u00a0 I really want to move away from the level of visual literalism that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1539\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-oP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}