I attended a 2-day character design workshop in February of 2022. We were given a character to design – prepare references, thumbnails and a cleaned up sketch.
For the first session, we were instructed to create a moodboard and several thumbnails for a character with a “Pirate Captain” theme.
We’ve been given feedback on our choices and thumbnails and were instructed to clean up the concepts and details by the second workshop. As I work, I leave myself little notes and to-do lists with ideas I want to explore more.
Final sketch after applying feedback.