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Game Jam Day 2

Date: 08/01/2019
Hours: 10:30am-4pm (4 hours)
What I Did:
For the second day of the Game Jam I started to focus more on the humans since I focused on the mythical creatures the first day. I tried to find hairstyles for the parents based on styles from the 1950s and some designs of my own, I used a template for the heads and then used that to draw the hair on top of instead of creating multiple different heads, and this sped up my process a lot. I also blocked out the colours to create my pieces, this made it much faster rather than trying to draw it by strands. Researching into hair whilst creating these pieces also helped a lot and helped me understand the shape of the hair.
I then went onto creating a piece based on the human’s child, in the piece I wanted to show that she was turning into a Harpy and how she’s upset by it. I made it so that she covered her face to hide her tears, visual storytelling is an area that I wish to heavily improve on and I feel I managed to be able to tell a story in that piece. However, I do feel that I still need to do a lot more research to understand how to convey certain emotions better. I also felt that I was able to draw the hair well and also make it look like it stands out rather than flat, I did this by giving highlights to the darker parts of the hair. I also did this with the wings and I’m also proud with how it turned out. What I feel that I need to improve on is lighting, I need to decide where the light is coming from and make it reflect correctly. Right now it feels like I’m showing the reflection wherever I please.

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