finalized & polished character designs

here's a lineup with names and height comparisons; first i did a colored first pass but it didn't come out too good:

i took it back to black and white, as the game is in b&w and polished them up. here are the finalized polished characters in a lineup:

individual character sheets done as preplanning:

and then i cleaned up a couple for example:

first pass finalizations - characters

after talking about the sketches in class and getting feedback on what were the most appealing characters, and reassessing what qualities and characteristics were most important to me and most relevant to the visions i had or the essences i had coined of the characters, i did these drawings. i gave each character a more refined idea of what i wanted with 2 extra ideations before settling on one and doing a sideview and some kind of action drawings to start to get a feel for the characters. their names were also settled in this pass.

initial character ideations

very first ideations and sketches done for the characters of spunk

character design inspiration photo dump

some stuff i looked at thinking about the bondage-obsessed principal / dean of the reformatory of my game, wolkov, who preys sexually on students at the school

some images i looked at when coming up with the naoko character, who deals and does drugs with the playable character in a semi-homoerotic relationship

some inspirations for the diaper fetishist / infantilist character tammy, who dresses like a lolita

inspirations for the gothic spendaholic character lucretia

inspirations for the anime fangirl character matilda