Clown Triggerfish Cook
We had an assignment to make a 'Beyond Good and Evil' inspired character design, I chose to use a clown triggerfish for reference as they have an interesting palette and I generally really like them. We had to give it a role as well, so I made it a cafeteria chef as it seemed to fit pretty well.
Started out with some shape researches for the fish, this would come in handy for the shape of the head in the design process.
I then made some silhouettes to figure out his body shape, I wanted to go for a heavy character, though I tried out some thinner silhouettes to see if it could be interesting. I ended up going for a more triangular shape heavy on the bottom.
Basic turnarounds with volume outlines and some detail placements.
Outline of the character, I added clothes on him to define his character at this point.
I made a color palette and then put on flat colors onto the outline. For the skin color, I stuck to the color palette of a clown triggerfish and went for a dirty greens and reds for the clothing to represent his rather careless dirty nature.
Colored Turnaround
Moved some things around, added lights, shadows, and textures and voila!