Extended Practice- Study Task 2 - Portfolio Building- Character Design Challenge- Biker

Portfolio Building- 

Character Design Challenge

This is a theme I was exited to try so I set myself the task of doing a character for this month, as well as next month so I could practice building puppets and designing characters for portfolio building. 

This is the basic design of the biker I am going to build, I was originally going to do a child but then wanted to try an animal as I haven't done this yet for a character. This is why a biker sheep was the design I ended up creating. He will be top heavy with small little legs, smoking a cigar and have a biker jacket on.

Below you can see the character, basic face angles for when I quickly build him, and the jacket he will be wearing.

I started out by building a simple wire frame of the male character and after putting screws in his feet, fixed him to a small box piece of wood for stability and ease when adding the layers.

Then foil was added to bulk his body out while keeping him fairly light, yet sturdy. Then after the rough body shape was formed, the head and nose of the sheep are glued on to give him more of a shape. 

The first step was to then do the legs and hooves in black, like leather pants to add to his look and biker theme. Then to bulk out his body thinly in plasticine. This of course made him heavier so before reinforcing him, I tied him to an object so he could not fall or buckle over time.

 This is a closeup of his face after the ears, nose, nose-ring and tiny wooden cigar have been added. He still needs more smoothing out but this is a good start to him looking like a sheep biker.