Character design: inspirations for poses

I decided to experiment with my characters posing, by looking at Disney film covers, I came across 'Tangled' where Rapunzel stands powerfully making direct eye contact. I copied the pose by drawing it out, manipulating details to fit my character.  

I fell this pose suits fittingly well to my character, however I feel her face needs to further developed. I also may need to simplify the design, to make her easier to animate.

Key frame plan for dymanic animation exercises

   this is the key frames that I will be using, created from my research I have plotted key frames similar to the shapes and bodily poses in my drawings. As he reels in the moon, I am going to extended the frames by adding in fillers.

Eye experiements

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I decided to experiment with more eyes, to really figure out my character, searching up references imagery from the web for inspiration. I like the more oval eyes, as I feel this enhance the curious side.

Life drawing

This week we used acrylic paints and attempted to due a portrait of the model; focusing on the shading, highlights, and neutrals. My painting took a more expressionist approach.  

Life Drawing

This week, we had to use acrylic paints and attempt to do a portrait painting, focusing on the shadows, mid tones and highlights.

Key shapes

simplified key shapes seen in fishing videos, I decided to take note of the pattern I saw. The action tends to start off with a slumped back, facing either left or right from a side view. Then the body begins to twist to the opposite side. As the rod swings forward, the arms become bend and close to the body.

Reeling in the moon: acting out actions

To further research, I asked my partner to act out the movements of reeling in the moon.
In his actions of pretending to swing out a reel, I noticed key poses similar to other drawings from other research sources of reeling out a fishing line.
From the side, there tends to be an 's' line of action, in the anticipation before swinging the fishing rod backwards. Once again, the body twists. The feet stays in the same place, only the legs and back moving and twisting; although the feet do lift, and point different ways- they do not move until the fall trying to reel in the moon. The movement of speed slows down as the moon is lassoed, this shows the weight and effort of trying to heave the moon down.

I shall use these key shapes and reference these movements with in my animation.