I narrowed down my choice’s through multiple designs of appearance, silhouette, colour schemes, historical clothing and accessories across multimedia films/shows and story illustrations for designs I preferred. I thought more about concept art and character design stages once I was still planning and collecting my research. There a total of 4 characters that I picked which are Bai Suzhen (White snake), Xiaoqing (Green snake), Xu Xian (Love interest/Doctor) and the Buddhist Monk (antagonist).
Going through appearances I thought hard about hair, clothes, accessories related to myth and cultural background especially in the era of the tang dynasty, most importantly what colour scheme I would go for each character. Using Miroboard, I brought all my research and inspirations for each character, to brainstorm ideas how I would draw them into my own art style with accurate details and matching each characters personality with their specific type of hair, clothing and body shape.
Research and Planning Mood board
Pipeline for the first stage of Character Design
