Industry Project - Fisherman
This is the fisher (and his nibling) theyre both often found around the docks the old man can be hard to talk to often being blunt and grumpy where the kid is energetic and overly friendly little one who loves to fish with their granddad (they think hes really cool).
Characters from my industry project, I was tasked with creating a minimum of 5 characters from an urban fantasy village with distinct roles and jobs. The cast I ended up with was a fisher, a mechanic, a street chef, a mail carrier and a treasurer. I also had to create an expression sheet based on a singular character where I chose the fisher.
Their final reference sheet
The final expression sheet i really enjoyed the concept of them exhaling smoke out of their gills
All the finished characters from a straight on perspective
Based on a reverse mermaid i thought making them fishers would be humorous.
I based them on bluefin tuna as they are carnivorous fish and align with the shape of typical reverse mermaids
I chose green for the old mans primary colour while i chose red for the kid to represent the old man having a less boisterous personality than the kid
Their illustrator pass, these two where the only ones to get to this stage before my uni hand in.
Initial ideation sketches for his expressions
Clean sketches that i worked off for the lineless final versions