The Creative Mind At Work!

I get asked from time to time on how I create my characters. Well, here it is! This is a screen shot of a character I designed in Adobe Photoshop CS5. The first image in the top left is what artist call the blocking in stage. Its were we take the simple shapes like spheres, cubes, triangles, and squares to create a basic skeleton of our idea. Once all the elements are in place, I begin sketching in the details (bottom left) I want the character to have. Lastly, with the pencil lines in place, I proceed to ink the drawing, add the color, highlights, shadows, and all the other little fun stuff until I have the finished character!

There is more to it than this. There are tons of things to get into like color theory, shading, perspective, and balance, but I'll save those things for another day.