Building Alliances - Character Sheet Process

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Here is the process of the character sheet I did for the mini boss I designed!

Additional Research + Mood boards

First I started off by looking up references to help me draw and design the character sheet for the mini boss. I looked up various reference of spiders and spider models to help me position the limbs in my character sheet. Sam suggested that I do some research into blades to see what shape is better for stabbing and what shape is better slashing. For this, I looked up Roman daggers which are made to stab people and this is what makes up majority of the blades on my mini boss. To make it asymmetrical and also give my mini boss the ability to slash, I looked up broken back seax knives and included that on one of the front legs of my designs. I also did some additional mood boards to help me maintain a consistent style as well as a Mood board to help me figure the shape of the vials.




Sketch

Here is the sketch. I first sketched out the main body and then drew the head and bottle. I then drew lines to figure out where I wanted to place the spider's legs. I then went over and drew out the legs using the symmetry tool. I duplicated the front and flipped it to create the sketch for the back. I used the select and move tool to move the legs around so their placement made sense. I sketched out a human figure to use as a size reference as the mini boss is supposed to tower over the player


Lineart

I used the symmetry tool and used the default black pen to add the line work.



Colour

I coloured the inside of the sketch using a neutral grey colour and used a mixture of alpha lock and clipping layers to add in the colours. I then added an orange/reddish colour for the rust.

I then added the title, background colour and annotations. To finish off the character sheet, I saved each image as a separate PNG file and then imported them into canva where I finalised the character sheet. The finished designs can be found here.


Reflection

I am super happy with this character sheet. I designed a spider robot which I am not comfortable drawing and I think I succeeded with it. Figuring out the legs was the most challenging part so I looked up references to see how to position them. I also struggled drawing the back of the model so I used the selection tool to reposition and flip the legs I'd already drawn. I drew this in FireAlpaca as it's the software I'm the most comfortable with. I think next time, I'd like to attempt this but using photoshop so I can get comfortable with the software.






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