Richard's Capstone Blog // Fall 2016 2016-09-18 06:46:54

Today I have been working on our Active planet kids project. I was assigned to create one of the bobble head characters for Kartick Satyanarayan, who is famous for rescuing “dancing” bears in India. His mission is to rescue and help the wildlife in India. One of the first things I did today was look at the research we all found as a group and looked at his photos for reference. I started sketching him out while referring to the proportions that the other bobble heads are drawn in. I made sure that the sketch would match stylistically with what was already out there. As soon as I felt that I had everything correct stylistically, I moved on to taking it to illustrator. I have been very careful to try to get everything looking very symmetrical and with smooth outlines. I am not completely done, but I have made significant progress throughout the day. One of the tricky parts is drawing the beard, which I have been working on the longest. I still want to refine the beard even more, because the edges look to jagged and not uniform. I also incorporated the use of gradients, which a lot of the existing bobble heads have on the clothing part. I think I am successfully capturing his likeness in this stylized illustration of him. As soon as I’m finished I am going to posting it on our Trello board, so my group members can give me feedback on it before we send it out to George. he wants us to send him five illustrations to begin with, before we move on to the rest of the project.