Art stuff

I have continued to look at artists to inspire my character designs. I have found the Final Fantasy franchise useful as the characters have a very androgynous look to them and are really aesthetically pleasing (plus they are reeeeeeaaaaaally good games). I am going to analyze the artists who worked on the games and the artists who worked on studio ghibi and dragon age and make a reference board of images to help come up with stuff. I also got a new book on making sci-fi stuff which looks pretty cool. I'm gonna work more on character concepts and relationships between characters.

Plot

I have been coming up with a plot basis for my concept to help with character development and to start considering what style of artwork would be best suited to the work. I have been practicing different ideas using a character generator in order to try different concepts for possible characters. I'm going to come up with some  more precise character developments for the characters in the story and see whether the plot needs to be changed/altered for the characters.

Character Experimentation

I'm going to continue looking into characters and start to put together character profiles based off of certain characteristics and character tropes as a starting point. I have found some random character generators to practice putting characters together and how to stylize certain attributes which I'm going to start playing around with to find out what works and what doesn't.

I've boon looking at videos on YouTube in character design processes and how to come up with ideas and concepts.

Art Styles

I've been looking more into different art styles and I think that the best bet is gonna be a cross between Steven universe and Studio Ghibli with a little bit of DA as keeping the art work stylised would mean that it would be easier to continue and replicate throughout and keeping elements slightly more simple would mean that I can improve other parts more. I now need to work more on the story and characters and am going to start creating protagonist and antagonist characters and a world around them, as I haven't spent much time on that lately.