One of the things I also tried to work on was posing of characters. In my previous work, I had a tendency to use simple poses which in hindsight were quite static and at times bland. I wanted the characters I concepted to have personalities that were discernible without any story or dialogue, just from a single image. For this I needed to work on my posing. I followed the advice of Green (2006), who explains, in concept art, the pose of a character must be an outward expression of their personality (p44). The way they hold themselves, how they look at the 'camera' or if they are looking the camera at all must express who they are. With this in mind I began creating drawings of my young protagonist, not just standing or in an 'action pose' but standing as Finn would be standing if I had seen him in the street, or doing things that Finn would be doing.
Below is an example of my previous pose for the protagonist...
Now after a lot of practice, one that is both more realistic and has more personality...
I concepted a series of these drawings, studying how people hold themselves and envisioning what my protagonist would be doing. Upon recommendation from my tutor, I also produced some pieces of Finn in environments, doing what he loves to do. These helped establish not only personality but mood..
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