Designing Briar's head


Eve sent me a link to a YouTube video about using a bow staff (because that is Briar's weapon of choice) which was really good, I also thought I'd use the face of the instructor as a starting point for my design of Briar's head. Below is a picture of the instructor and above my first sheet of head designs. Starting top left I worked my way right trying to iterate as much as I could while keeping the same style of hair...

I continued to play around with the design changing the shape and height of the forehead and hairline as well as the angle of the nose and mouth..



I then asked Eve for feedback and she chose the design to the far right on the top line of the first sheet but asked if I could make the forehead smaller...


Eve then chose the head four along from the left and I went on to design another hair do for one of the other outfits for the character.
 

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