big female (routine and orderly, but also timid and shy) small female (kindhearted peacekeeper that is also slightly sadistic and cynical) medium male (proactive and aggressive leader who is also selfless and warm)

Hi, This is my barbarian project! I started with the big guy (middle one), after a few sketches, I really like the final design. But I started to struggle when I had to make the other characters fit in the same world... At the end of the day I actually quite like the final trio, but if you have any advice to keep a certain "vibe" throughout any drawing I would be very thankful! Thanks! and don't be shy to critique!

I’ve never not drawn a more realistic/ anime style so this was…different…

My barbarians for the visual association assignment, how did I do with this @David Colman ? My process: started by defining what barbarians are, writing important things down. Then dove deeper into the character descriptions, adding notes that I thought suited the personalities, trying to figure out WHO the characters are. And finally, trying to figure out how I show these personalities with shapes as you taught in the demo. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I went. I kept the style that you referenced in mind and aimed in that direction. Thanks heaps :)

My Barbarians...

So, lemme say what I was trying to do while drawing the characters. They are drawn in the same order as in assignment. So, first one should be "routin and orderly, but also timid and shy". To show first part I try use some symmetrical cloths design. The second part I try to show by pose and expression. Additionaly I try using more roundness in shapes. Second character should be "proactive and aggressive leader who is also selfless and warm". I try use more sharp edges to show his agrresive part, composing him in triangle, trying give squer feeling for his warm part. The third one should be "kindhearted peacekeeper that is also slightly sadistic and cynical". Maybe it doesn't feel like "kindhearted" but I try to show this cynical and sadistic part by face expresion. I try make her more slim with triangles and asymmetric to show her less predictable nature, perhaps even a dodger. The inked version is "finall" one but I want to show first sketches as well. They may be better in some point of view but I thought they may not be exactly what I want to show. For example the sadistic one - as a sketch I really love result but is too much in "my style". I want make them more cartoon so forms will better seen. Next example is the agrresive one. I want him to look big, very big, so I need to put him near the rest, so he stoped looks like dwarf. And that's all what I want to say about my attempt.

Hopefully some of the characteristics are in these 3 barbarians. The timid that prefers rules, the aggressive but selfless - and the slightly sadistic peace keeper. I forgot, 2 female and 1 male. The first could be transgender then. Most of it was with pen and ink, but then I wanted to shrink the first dragon, then change more things - so I traced it all again in Procreate.

Here are my three barbarians. Has anyone a suggestion for improvement? It was challenging to create the sadistic peacekeeper...  

so I've been a bit spotty with my uploading (I am doing assignments, just had a lot on my plate and not a ton of time to scan my sketchbooks and do posts. I did finish the class though!). This was fun and these are actually re-designs of my originals. I don't think I would usually go for this graphic a style but I enjoyed experimenting. Once again I think I would benefit from completing my figure drawing course. Though my understanding of anatomy, pose, and gesture are improving, I'm not completely intuitively comfortable applying these things to design (so no, David, the fancy stuff isn't working yet... not totally). However, I feel I did alright representing these guys. Maybe the peace keeper looks a bit more than slightly sadistic (more like a villain or anti-hero than someone who is kind hearted) but I like how I distorted her anatomy. I feel that the leader's prop could have been more creative and her gesture a bit more loose, but I feel her anatomical design is working for her character. The rule follower has my favorite prop conceptually, I feel his character reads the most successfully, but that may be because as an awkward and anxious person, I can literally feel his gesture XD.

Hello! Had a lot of fun with this, even if the forms of the charakters could be bit more expressive. Also I'm bit struggling with the poses, now they feel a bit random. But still a very cool task, thank you!

Here are my three barbarians. For some reason it took me quite some time to design and draw them, but as for now i am quite happy with the result. I hope one can tell who is supposed to be who. For the final image i unfortunatley used a grey marker to find the pose and to do the construction, and it shows up more than i wanted, well i wil not make this mistake again. I added some color and and some background details to make the picture look better. I think it helped but the general presentation of my picture still doesnt look to good to me. But with some of the later chapters beeing named staging and appeal i feel confident that ill improve in these areas aswell. I really enjoyed this weeks information and exercises on visual association and i am very exited to start with week 4. I will post my city-sketches in the reply-section of this post. Any kind of feedback on my barbarians and citysketches would be very welcome.

Here are some of my coffee shop sketches. Apologies for the chicken scratches, I did a lot of correcting as I tried to design the forms a bit and it got messy. I am having trouble getting away from the human form into other shapes while also keeping gesture and dimension. If anyone has any tips for that or critique, I'd be very grateful. Thankyou

Here are my 3 characters for the assignment. I had a lot of trouble with this. I started off with big shapes but the characters just sort of melded into regular human shapes again. Either way I learned a lot about using straights and curves against each other. Any critique would be really helpful if anyone is still looking at this page. Thanks

just saw all the other sketches and to be honest so embarrassed to put this here. Apologies in advance

Here are my barbarians. I decided to do a second version of each one cause I realized that the first designs were too form oriented and not bold or pushed at all, so I tried to focus more on finding contrast between proportions, and designing simple shapes. I wanted to share both versions though, cause they're really thought-out. I'd appreciate your feedback very much. PD: sorry for my English, I'm still learning. I'd appreciate any grammar corrections as well, hehe.

3! Let’s go!!! Drawing people as cartoons rather than realistic was much harder than I expected. The characters were fun to make.

I really tried to let go and just let the angles and proportions run amuck!

I did this with different subjects to practice today's assignment. It was complicated and fun to merge traits into a single character. I'm not convinced about the slightly sadistic aspect on my work, as for the rest I'd be happy to know if there's something I overlooked.

These are my barbarians for assignment 3. I would like to get better at creating interesting poses to show off more of their personality, but I can definitely see how shapes play a pretty key role in communicating character!

Third assignment with 10 pages of sketches and barbarian designs. I welcome any feedback.  Completing this assignment took me a lot of time and It was hard. But it pushed me into sketching way more in my sketchbook and was fun to experiment with human shapes. I can't wait to see new challenges :)