Character Design Process: Fergus Mercurio

My goal with this course was to design a character for a D&D campaign while learning ways to be diverse when creating characters and becoming more open to experimenting with them.

For all of these images and drawings i used Clip Studio Paint!

From the start, I knew Fergus was a skittish cat and very cautious when it came to safety. A bit of context for his story is that he's an astronaut, specifically a spaceship pilot, who lost his memory after an unknown event and now finds himself trying to understand where he is, those around him, and who he was before the tragedy.

I made a total of 6 conceptual sketches and ended up combining different characteristics of some to form the final design.

I designed 3 different color schemes, I knew I wanted him to be a black cat and that color to predominate in the design, so I tried different types of black making contrasts with the clothing that in the first scheme has a colder palette, the one in the middle that has a balance and the third that are warmer colors, in the end I decided to stay with the one in the middle since it felt more like him.

I made a sheet with different outfits and another with different poses taking myself as a reference, it was very fun to do both and give more personality and life to the character!

I took the liberty of making more character sheets for other existing original characters..