Paige Maddox- Creative Futures

  What does a character designer do? - They make the look of the character based off of descriptions from the director.  -They produce model sheets that show the character from different angles.  What's a character designer good at? - Drawing, being able to adapt to different art styles and showing good attention to detail. - Working with other artists. Being able to collaborate and share ideas to improve designs.  - Watching cartoons, having a high amount of interest in the animation industry. however, staying open to other industries such as illustration, advertising and gaming can be beneficial.  How do I become a Character Designer? - Keep drawing to practise and improve. - Build a portfolio. Manually and online. - Get an education/ degree based on art and design - Networking with other artists  References: Screenskills (2023) Character Designer Available at: https://www.screenskills.com/job-profiles/browse/animation/pre-production/character-design...

  My Strengths: 1.) Character Design 2.) Line work 3.) Ambitious- I'm determined to reach goals that I have set. My Weaknesses: 1.) My social/ presentation skills 2.) Stay in comfort zone when creating work- need to experiment more with other mediums/ techniques such as digital softwares.  3.) I stick to the same art style

I have developed one of my logo designs even further by applying colour to it by using Photoshop. I like this design because it plays on scale such as the book, pencil and rubber being large. However, I think the colour scheme needs improving as it's quite dark.   

I have now started to create my own logos that represent me as an Illustrator. I would like to use this for my website and possibly for the degree show if needed. All the logos presented in the image above show my interests. Such as: how I like to draw and listen to music. I think that they are all successful because they represent me and my drawing style for the logos has a mixture of simple and bold lines and patterns.  My designs need to developed even further and I will apply colour to which design I think is the most successful.