This series of small panels explores character illustration through bold, flat colour blocking and simplified facial features, using a set of well-known animated characters as source material for studying expression, proportion, and graphic style. Each panel isolates a single character's face or partial figure against a saturated, single-colour background, allowing the linework and expression to read with maximum clarity and impact. The studies focus on capturing distinctive facial proportions and expressions, demonstrating an ability to distil complex character design down to essential shapes and lines. Working across this grid of panels allowed for repeated practice in clean linework, flat colour application, and consistent mark-making, while the varied expressions and poses across each character provided a useful exercise in capturing personality and mood through minimal detail. Together, the series reflects an interest in graphic illustration and character-based design, using familiar, high contrast visual language as a foundation for developing confidence in colour, proportion, and expressive linework.
This series of small panels explores character illustration through bold, flat colour blocking and simplified facial features, using a set of well-known animated characters as source material for studying expression, proportion, and graphic style. Each panel isolates a single character's face or partial figure against a saturated, single-colour background, allowing the linework and expression to read with maximum clarity and impact. The studies focus on capturing distinctive facial proportions and expressions, demonstrating an ability to distil complex character design down to essential shapes and lines. Working across this grid of panels allowed for repeated practice in clean linework, flat colour application, and consistent mark-making, while the varied expressions and poses across each character provided a useful exercise in capturing personality and mood through minimal detail. Together, the series reflects an interest in graphic illustration and character-based design, using familiar, high contrast visual language as a foundation for developing confidence in colour, proportion, and expressive linework.