Week 6 – Level details
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Hello hello! So last week I got the task to design some vacation details to add to the beach in our version of Magic Writer. This was mostly to increase the impression of our wizard being on a vacation and on a relaxing beach, not expecting the incoming monsters. The details would work as a stop for our character, since the beach would be quite wide we wanted to narrow it down so that the lanes that the wizard can jump between won’t be too far apart. So for designing the details I wanted to keep a cartoonish style to mirror the art style for the rest of our game. When I started sketching up an idea for the details, a sunchair for starters, I thought of one of the classic charter beach chairs that you often see at touristic beaches, but I imagined it being in wood. Like this one ~
I started of with a quick sketch of the chair but after giving it some thought I decided to scrap the idea, since this kind of chair would take up quite a lot of space on the beach and I still wanted to keep it simple and clean so it won’t make the beach look to crowded and take up too much attention from other more important things in the game. So after some sunchair research I instead started drawing up a fold up chair. To give the details an even stronger impression of a holiday in the sun I also added a coconut drink, to enhance an exotic and relaxing feeling, next to the sunchair with an umbrella in it. I coloured the sunchair orange and as in the rest of our game, I kept a simple shading and stuck to bright colours throughout.
When I felt more or less done with the design and colouring I showed it to the other artists in my group. They suggested on a more classic style for the colouring of the chair, with red stipes and to also add armrests to make it look more solid and symmetric. They also thought I should change the colour of the lineart to make it look more interesting. I tried changing the design of the details towards the feedback I got from my team and changed the colours of the chairs fabric and the lines to a darkblue colour. I also though about drawing a parasol next to the chair as well but never really got around to do it and after discussing it briefly with the others, I got the feeling that the details design already filled it’s purpose and that it gave a better feeling of the wizard being on vacation as it was.
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