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Design and the usefulness of ITERATION!
🕑 Added 2019-03-31 20:48:23 +0000 UTCHello once again!
So I thought it might be fun to share with you some of what I did to arrive at the variety of Fiction's current color palettes choices being used in the vote ^^
As can be guessed by seeing the title of this post, iteration is the main process I used to get there. Iteration is an important but also a simple enough concept that helps tremendously when it comes to exploring and testing out a design! With it, you can have fun playing with options and testing out tweaks and see if they help improve whatever you're creating ^^
It's very seldom for one's first idea to be their best as can be seen from this example of my initial experimentation vs something closer to what I ended up with:
I initially used some rough value sketching to create some basic ideas to start with in figuring out Fiction's design patterning. All I really knew going into it is that I wanted her to be lighter than Amyth and to not have too many similarities, if any, to his own design. I really want to show off the variety of my species so the two of them needed to be plenty different :3
Next, I tested out a handful of some rough wing patterning before narrowing down which ones I liked most! Here are some examples of that:
After picking out a wing pattern I liked well enough, I tweaked it a bit further and move to the next step of the process... Color!
To begin, I went and gathered some color palettes from a variety of sources... Food, objects, games, places... the more the merrier!! :D
Here is a compilation of some of my favorites I chose for this project ^^
NOW... armed with this inspiration, I set about putting it to use and trying out all sorts of combinations so that I could look through them and figure out which ones spoke to me most!
NEEDLESS TO SAY.. I got a bit carried away here ^^; Easy enough to swap colors out though at this stage so why not go ham I felt :3
After creating these 120 tests (jesus) I took the time to narrow it down to a much more reasonable number of 35... and then narrowed that down to 14 and finally to just 6. I highlighted in red the options I chose through these last sets as well for you to see ^^
And there you have it! That's how those 6 options came to be and now its up to you all to decide which one will be used and tweaked further from this point and largely influence her final look <3
Also, as a reminder since the poll ends tomorrow - please go here to vote for your favorite option if you haven't already: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25728748
This character is gonna be seen quite a bit more and your votes will have a sizeable impact given that :3
(Also, by no means am I an expert on this topic by the way, I just thought I'd share how I myself attempted to put it into practice! Hopefully this was of interest to some of you at least and thank you for checkin it out!)
Comments
Amyth
lmao. Like an Andy Warhol piece... but dragons.
Tendertail
I want a shirt patterned with all the different colors of Fiction from the start XD Like aSFW shirt pattern. Id buy it =P
TerryBurr's
Yaaaaaas! Look at all them chickies!! All of them have a certain charm to em though!!
Amyth
Thank you! :D
Spartan1113
That's the hell of a work, good job !!
