Character design basic lighting

Value is important when considering to color your pieces. When looking at realistic color you want to have realistic dark's and lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiTj_qVF2j0

This is a screenshot showing how the colors work 

Once you understand color you need to know where your light is coming from here are example of how light reacts to different materials

normal

metal

glass

Once the basic are down you can apply them to your drawings here is a rough example how color and light alters  picture

Character Design Basic colors

Its is important to know what color palette you are going to use for the various creatures in the game as that will help determine the different factions of what or who they  belong too

the basic color wheel can easily give you an idea of contrasting colors you can use 

Here you can see the different colors have a different desired effect

This is a basic enemy sketch

Here you can see the blue colors give it an icy ghost type effect

Lighting Faces part two

Here are the female variant of the faces These one's you had to make sure the light looks softer

Mage

Warrior

Ranger

Once you have what face you prefer you can digitally colour it in 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDR1NR_NCxc  here is a link which will show you how to colour the face in

Lighting of faces

When designing a portrait you need to make sure your lights and shadows are in the correct position

Ranger idea

Warrior idea

Mage Idea

Games Character Design Digital Outcome

Once I had completed the initial sketch ups, I began creating the digital version of the face in which then it will get passed onto the 3D modeler

Here I was trying different styles of hair to see what looked best on the main male character

I also began drawing up ideas of the simple clothing the character will start off with; here is one of the designs i'm leaning towards the most. More details will be added later

Getting started Games character design

I am currently designing characters for a game here are the rough sketch ups of my initial idea's

I have created a variety of various face sheets (the top images are examples of some of the work) in which I then chose the best features of them and defined them down into two characters 

I was asked to design a male and a female character  and these two images are what i'm using as a base in which then I will draw them up digitally