Digital Sklls Aplication - Duel Triptych




For this project I was tasked with creating a narrative piece which could be either an illustration or an animation. I decided to go with illustartion since its what im personally more intrested in and I also decided to create a follow up piece to my charcter design project. In that project I created a design for a monster charcter based off of the Japanese Oni (ogre).  I also wanted to design a protagonist charcter in that project but really struggled with nailing the design down so I really wanted to give myself a reason to go back to the designs from that project.

For my narrative I had the idea of depicting a battle between two charcters as a tryptich since I wanted to try out some more dynamic poses. I wanted both of the charcters to seeem like refections of eachother so I used a lot of side by side poses.

The art style I went with was inspired by Genddy Tartakovsky's work on the 2003 Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon. I really like the geometic and angular shapes of the chacters with the bold black outlines, I think it makes for a very appealing look.


 I created my work using a mix of Adobe Illustrator for the line work and then Adobe photoshop for the colouring up. I think I could have further improved my work by expretimenting with different textures and this is something Iwill have to try in future. 


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