Character Questions

Where does your character live?

Under the sea

Where is your character from?

Under the sea

How old is your character?

20

What is your character called?

Seo

What does your character look like?

blue and purple(sea-like colors), have a hook as a piercing? maybe incorporate a bony-like structure

What kind of childhood did your character have?

childhood with both parents to support him but he was rebellious and snuck out  

What does your character do for a living?

school teacher

How does your character deal with conflict and change?

open-minded

Who else is in your character’s life?

his wife and the kids he teaches

What is your character’s motivation in this scene that you will illustrate?

the kids he teaches

Technology has affected me throughout this project by making it come to life. I used images from Pinterest and put them together in my mind and created an underwater creature. Other artists gave me their ideas through their work. I saw how they wanted to put their ideas in their work and I used the idea of that to create my monster. I wanted him to look nice and friendly because his role was to be a school teacher. To make him look more realistic (3D) I used gradients for shadowing underneath him to give him 3D look. I also wanted him to look like he belonged underwater, so I gave him gills, fins on his back, octopus-like arms, and a seahorse tail. I decided to stay with blues and purples as my color choice because I felt that he needed to be camouflaged in order to survive under the water.

Technology helped me outline all of the things i put down on paper but enhanced them. It gave the coloring process seem like an easier task and made my lines as smooth or rough as I wanted them to be. The most helpful tool I used was the gradient tool; I used it to make the ocean water look darker blue towards the bottom because in real life the bottom of the ocean is darkest while the top is lighter. I also used it on the setting sun above the water. I used orange yellow and dark blue to convey a setting sun in the distance over the ocean. I also used the pencil tool to make smooth outlines for my monster.

The technology I used made my options seem limitless and it allowed my imagination to flow as pleased. From the pen tool to shape-builder to the pencil tool and so many more, my monster seemed to pop out of the page. If technology wasn’t present then in my sketching process I think I would have been so overwhelmed with so many different ideas that I wouldn't know how to piece it altogether like I did. If I couldn't use technology then I would have painted using watercolor paint to make it seem like he was really underwater.