Donovan revision, early 2008

Recent design for animation. Two separate sketches, actually, the 'after', followed by the 'before'. Was trying to figure out a good design for animated hair (which I did and have now stuck with even through a new design), as well as simplify the character's scaly features. (The eyebrows before had spikes sticking out, and the nose had more width and depth.)

With the most recent design, as seen in color in the blog title, many of these changes might be invalidated. Others might re-appear. (The focus on the three-pronged sideburns was an attempt to foreshadow the jaw spikes, for instance.)

Donovan, last year's diagnostic

A descriptive sheet for the character. Emphasis here was on his distinguishing features, such as his scaled arms and legs, the tail, and the unique spike pattern on his face. Specifics which this failed to include were the borders between his human skin and his scale patches. His skin is generally caucasian-pink, except his forearms and shins where it segues into fine, dusky grey-black scales. His face has a slight red tone at the cheekbones and following the back corner of the jaw around the spikes, but his fully-scaled nose and eyebrows emerged straight from the pink flesh.

Donovan sketch, 'early' form

Originally an attempt to just do a simple comic-style character turnaround. Intended to be 'in the past', before he got huge and muscular, or grew the wings. Later, during my animation class, I found the slimmer design better suited for what I wanted to do, although I still plan on advancing the character to the previous larger, 'later' design in the series' future.

Original sketch for Donovan

Originally drawn 2004, as a roleplaying character. (Specifically, a half-red dragon ala D&D's 3rd edition, thus the specific stripes, horns, spikes, and so forth. The tail was just a personal preference, I like spades.)