BSA 226

So today me and a classmate were talking quite extensively on our characters and ideas for them. I showed him three drawings and a quick painting of them i had done to which his response was extremely 'meh'. But upon revisiting my designs, I totally got why he'd think that way. They were too plain, not really enough for me to want to even go into her world; see things through her eyes? why..? shes too plain annnnd so I reached the conclusion to try re-approach her using the same elements that I liked about her.

 I went back to 'moments' or characteristics of various characters I enjoyed such as Morrigan from Dragonage. The expressions she pulled and just simplistic enough designs but with an unending spring of visual appeal and amusement. And I worked off these kinds of characters in my mind.

 Characters like Kenshin popped out with the idea of his back ward sword and the intresting way this would work is if their was an assasination or something in his village and the description for the assaulter was that "He attacked from the front" it would immediately eliminate Kenshin as his blade forces him to use backward strikes. like okay how this relates to my character is that I was imagining my character, Elizabeth to have this huge bell on her back that she carries around so when she walks around it jingles softly. but however she's so adept at sneaking when she sneaks around, the bells actually quiet, so how my classmate imagined it is if like Kenshin, when something goes down? the people don't generally turn to look at Elaiza purely cause logically they would say stuff like "She can't sneak around, not with that huge ass bell".

While I was designing my redesign, I kinda gave her these weird shaped pauldrons and when looked at immediately reminded me of this character; Astrid from how to train your dragon. Yet another character that I liked from her simplicity but she was incredibly interesting as a lone character. 

My character however, did come in and give me some different thoughts while i was designing my character saying how he feels more along that back-revealing design might suit her more so I tried that as well.