What Were You Expecting?

As an after thought, What Were You Expecting is a brief designed for character design and innovation, but originally was just to pass the time!

A friend and I were coming home to Bath from Brighton with a group of friends and started making different characters on A5 paper in different sections: head, body, legs and feet. It was just to pass the train journey, but turned out to be supprisingly fun as nether of us knew what each other had drawn until the feet had been drawn and the character revealed.

Back in Bath we’ve continued to make a range of strange and obscure characters as well as asking other’s to help make different parts of the body, as we both realized we both tended to focus on the same way to produce the character’s parts, which became a pattern. I focused more on the anatomy of the characters and Kai focused more on putting everyday objects to fill the ga

ps, making some very unusual and awesome looking “people”!

We progressed to produce over 100 characters and had the idea to make a book out of them all (excluding a couple). We managed to spilt the characters into different sections which we named:

Champions-heroic look

Desperadoes-villianistic look

Hybrids-animal/mammal look

Extraterrestrials-weird and out of this world

Cyborgs-robotic and prosthetic

Other-couldn’t categorize

A prototype was made by photocopying the raw images then bound to give us an idea of what the outcome would look like. We photoshopped each image then imported the images to indesign for layout and to include the contents and section pages. The file was then sent off to a book publishing company in London to be printed, after a few amendments to layout and grammar checks the book(s) were printed.

As an after thought for continuing the project further we thought we could continue the books as a series, using the same drawings as a guideline, but taking parts of photographs to add colour and a different feel to the project.

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