Character Design & Other Illustrations

Understanding The Characters & Breaking down Their Characteristics:

Hollis: The story is from Hollis's perspective he plays the protagonist and is an army boy. He goes through a wave of emotions which ends in the acceptance of his fate.

Stone: Good friend to Hollis out of the crew, the voice of reason.    

Lespere: A bit of a player and self-praising, optimistic and has no fear of regrets or wishing he had done more with his life.

Captain: Showed as being powerless and ineffective in having any authority over his crew 

Applegate: Agitative towards the crew, negative. 

Stimson: Fearful and panicky


Sketching in Illustrator basic outlines:




Adding Colours & Shading:







When designing my characters I made sure to make each of them look quite a bit different from another. And based on their personality traits highlighted by the dialogue in the short story. I also selected particular color and hairstyles that fit best.

Outfits.

Designing Hollis' Outfit:

I went for an almost futuristic military style, I felt the traditionally styled space suits of this day an age didn't feel right. I wanted to portray a more futuristic style like I applied to the rocket.

Rocket Design: 

Adding more details to my characters:

Hollis.

Adding pupils makes a real difference! :D

I played around with a mixture of colors and shapes, looks really cool.

Different poses:

Showing Stone transitioning from fear to acceptance.
I used Stone to show this in particular because he starts off so frightful and ends up seeing the beauty of space and accepting his death.

Removing some of the faces on images and replacing them. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to redraw most of them, but I did add more detail, pupils, highlights and shadows.