Mum Character

Dad Character

Here are a few designs i've done for the dad character in my story (from initial sketches).

Main Character

My main character in my story is that of the little girl. Here are a few of the designs i've tried out for how she will look (from my initial sketches) with texture and colours added

Adding Texture to characters

After scanning in my image and opening it on photoshop the first thing I do is play around with brightness and contrast to get the lines as clear and defined as possible. I first used texture in my images when I taught myself during the last unit of level 5. The feedback I received for it was really positive so I decided to carry it through to my work in level 6. 

You want to add colour to the areas where you want there to be texture. I use any colour which I can then edit or change later on the background layer.

The hair will need to have texture added to it, so I add colour by selecting the colour and the area and then simply use the paint bucket tool.

Another part I want to add texture to is my characters clothes. 

Next I get a photo of the texture I want to use and open it up in photoshop

I then drag the texture onto the image that I am working on and want to add texture to. I place it where I want to add the texture and then select that I want the texture to "overlay" the colour.

Soft light and some other options work too but since it's for a young audience I like the texture to be bold and obvious and for this I find that simply overlaying the texture works best.

I then trial out colours for the different areas so that I have a few varieties to work with and choose from later.

To edit the colour I select the area that I want to work with (e.g. the shirt) from the background layer.

Finally once I am done to reduce the final file size I flatten all the layers to create one image.