Design Ideas

 Design 1.

Above is my initial idea for my character design. I wanted my character to look pale, and to look unwell with red around her eyes and lips to enhance it. I also wanted to have blood dripping down her chin as in my chosen scene, she had just bitten someone and her appearance is described as this. As she is also described as animalistic, I considered making my design more interesting with a colour added on the face that looks animal-like. The image below is where I found inspiration for this idea:

Pinterest, (2015). Yolandi Visser Vampire. [image] Available at: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/346003183851186890/ [Accessed 28 Feb. 2016].

After drawing up my initial idea, it occurred to me that my design would be very hard to create for continuity and at this stage I want decide on something achievable. The blood in particular would be especially hard to get it to drip in the same way. I also found my animal-like aspect on the skin may not look as effective as I want and difficult to achieve.

Design 2.

With this design, I tried to approach my design in a way that was a lot less abstract and more vampire-like. After drawing my design I found my ideas to be too predictable and uninspiring. I felt that I needed something with originality, but still recognisable as a vampire. I also felt that my design also did not reflect the period in any way.

Design 3.

I decided that a good way for me to achieve some creative flare and also be successful in continuity would be to incorporate the use of prosthetic in my design.

I felt very confident with this idea and decided to practice it on my model:

When creating my design, I decided to swap out the grey powder for greasepaint as this would not apply well on to the prosthetic and I wanted it to match on the face. After doing this design, I realised that everything looked far too threatical for a TV design and almost cartoon like which made it look comical. I realised I needed to reconsider my products and colours what I wanted to use to make it look more suitable.

With this design , I followed the same idea as before but this time everything is toned down. I have gone for a much softer use of red around the eyes and lips to look more natural and gone for a pale skin tone instead of white. This therefore still looks vampire like but without the boldness:

After practicing this design, I realised I like this approach much better and the more natural look is much more suited to the Victorian period.