DwarfElfHuman

Character designs for a game? I wish... Charactersforagamewannabe. Better...

Done for an uni assignment. Took me a whole week to finish it. ;w; Just three characters..a week...*faint* First I did the dwarf and when I realized it's taking me days to finish it, I decided to make the rest of the characters less detailed. Kind of failed on that with the elf, but the human looks simple enough. XD Actually, the exercise was supposed to be on proportions, so the designs are not important at all, I'm not even sure if we were supposed to draw full coloured pictures, or just sketches, or...But I wanted to practice. So I did it this way. O/

The dwarf ended up being quite inspired by The Hobbit's dwarves I guess...Didn't mean it, but couldn't help it. XD
The human turned out better than I expected. I just regret drawing that...thing he's wearing on his front. I thought I could do something cool with it, but I didn't and now it looks stupid. XD Oh, and he was supposed to have a sword...but I didn't draw it. lol!
I like the elf the most, except some bits of the colouring on his clothes which are bothering me. I think his design was most successful. I like that it's not typical elf, but it's still elven enough~ And I don't know why I like giving my elves this particular hair colour, I should stop it. Or maybe...this could be Laura and Lawler's father! OAO Perfect~ I didn't have a design for him anyway. XD

I really need to do something about the speed of my drawing. Even after I made these less detailed and I used a lot simpler colouring than my usual, it still took forever. But here's my plan on how to fix that:

1. Uninstall Tera and never play it again.
2. Stop having naps during the day.
3. Block tumblr

LOL I'm doomed...

I'm still working really hard though. I'm still not sure what I want to do in the future, I don't want to just say 'I wanna be a character designer' and aim at that, I don't want to limit myself. Though I like drawing characters the most. But I don't feel like I'm good enough for that. Not just my skills, but...I somehow feel that I don't have the proper mindset to do it??? Idk... When I design characters it's all mostly...randomness. I try to think when I design, but if I don't have a sudden strike of inspiration from somewhere, randomness. That's all it is. Experimenting what random clothing elements could work and what not and idk...I feel like a lack something, not sure how to obtain it though. But I'm still working on it. I think I already said that? Kind of. Why am I repeating it? Because...I don't know if you guys notice it, please tell me you see it, but I'm trying to change my style to fit the needs of the game industry and possible future employers, bit by bit but I'm trying and I'm struggling with it, not that it's hard, it just feels bleh and it's killing me. X_X I'm not sure if I should keep forcing myself, the changes aren't big for now, it may look better , but I don't feel nice when I draw like that and I'm not having fun. :/ _{If only I could stop thinking about money... OTL} I don't know...I'll go draw some stuff for myself now. <3

Any comments are really appreciated.

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