Character Design

Firstly, I need to apologize as I haven't been posting regularly at all this year, I should have been keeping on top of my blog but sadly I haven't.
I am going to take this time to upload as much work as I can to show my recent work and progress within my modules, however my portable hard drive has recently broke, causing me to lose certain pieces of work that I hadn't yet backed up, which is a shame as i was rather happy with some of the work I had on there, including my most recent module in which i modeled the existing character 'Stimpy' from The Ren and Stimpy Show, I had composited him onto a background I had created and the animation showed him walking through the scene, however i do still have a few screenshots of the character itself and will post them up soon.

The first thing I am going to post is my character design sheets and development.
The character I had created was a zombie named Borghoul, I had always wanted to create a zombie character as i have always been interested in the idea of them.

Here is my first attempt at drawing my character, I was overall quite pleased with this design even though it was the only one I could come up with, so I decided to stick with it and try to make it look better using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

After tracing over my character design in illustrator I decided to change little details about my Character such as, instead of the tuft of hair at the right side of his hair I decided to replace it with more of the zombies brains hanging out.

Here is how my character design looked after I had finished tracing over it with the pen tool, without the pencil drawing behind it

Once I was happy with the line work of my character, I then decided to colour it up, to do this I used the program Adobe Photoshop, I also added shading to the colour to give it a more textured look, I did this by using the Eyedropper tool and selecting the colour, I then selected a darker version of the colour and used a different brush around the edges of my character

I then decided to try and design my character without using any line work, and just using basic shapes in Adobe Photoshop instead to see if my character would look any better, and it turns out that I prefer this version to all of the others as it looks very simple yet effective.

Below is an image showing the front, side and rear views each created using the same technique in Adobe Photoshop.