Sustained Investigation #3

The main idea that guided this artwork is that I was recommended by my art teacher to create a character sheets of some of my story characters to demonstrate their personalities and information about them. I have actually used a premade character sheet before for both for personal art and a D&D character. This time around I decided to make my own character sheet in order to convey the information I found most important about my character. I tell a bit of basic information about AJ, then rate a variety of skills out of five stars, and then give a little blurb about the character. Of course I also drew the character, then drew out a bunch of accessories they might have. With AJ in particular I knew this could convey a lot of personality. The spray paint, wrapped baseball bat, and brass knuckle obviously indicate trouble, but the snack bar and sticker covered sketchbook convey that there is more to her and that she's still just a kid. 

Like the previous sustained investigation this piece of art was done on the digital program procreated on a canvas size of that of a standard comic book page, by doing this multiple times I hope to become a bit more comfortable with an unusual canvas size. Additionally I am learning how to structure the layout of information on this type of canvas size. Even though this piece was digital and I could have easily typed out the words to the character sheet I used different brushes to hand write them instead, one calligraphy brush and one sketch brush. Doing work digitally also allows me to access a wide range of bold colors, something that shuts itself for an adventure comic. 

When creating this custom character sheet I thought a lot about what I would add and how I would structure it in the sketch phase. Of cores the character is supposed to be in one of the top corners along with all the basic information. In this case character on the left, info on the right, so hopefully the viewer reads that information in that order. Looking at the character then learning about them. Then the viewer's eye should go down and read all the additional information. Probably first to the bright assortment of accessories, as well as the stars where they can read what they represent. Last at the bottom the viewer gets context to the characters story through a short blurb that is still the time consuming part to look at so it will probably be read last.