Character Develpoment —- Emperor (2)

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Facial Features Analysis

Current information shows that the terracotta warriors have square face, pear-shaped face, pointed face, long face, round face and other eight types of face, most of them are square face. And the face is flat, the bone mechanism is not prominent, the bridge of the nose is generally not high. And most of them have beards that come in various shapes, which I think is a very interesting point, and I think that I can apply this to my character design, I will try different shapes of beards and try to recreate as much as I can of the Terracotta Warrior’s facial features to ensure the cultural identity of my character.

After a brief study of the Terracotta Warriors’ modelling, I hope I can do a complete recreation of the facial features of the figures. Based on the Terracotta Warriors, I also tried different beards for Qin Shi Huang, but I prefer the third one because it looks more serious!

Character Details

At first I wanted to emphasise Qin Shi Huang’s Qin
element by adding a bronze pattern to his shoulder
armour, but last night I found that the effect wasn’t very
obvious, so I went back to the outer contours and made
the edges of the bronze into the edges of the armour,
and the overall texture was instantly enhanced.

This pattern is called the dragon pattern, which is a bronze
pattern that historically could also be used as a decoration for
fabric. The dragon motif symbolises kingship and nobility and
is often used to differentiate between the noble and the lowly.
Therefore I have used this design, secondly I have used a
yellow colour which is similar to red and added a red border
around it to make the yellow colour less obtrusive, the red
border echoes the other red colours on the dress to give it a
pleasant look.

I didn’t pay too much attention to the details of the lower
body, the reference in the picture is to a dragon and two
divine birds, early Chinese dragons, very different from
the current image. The sacred birds, like the dragon
motif, symbolise power, and to emphasise their nobility
I chose a gold colour similar to the armour but didn’t
put too much attention on it. Because they’re not in the
centre of vision people should focus on them.

Logo Design

In order to make my project look more formal, I decided to design my own logo, first of all I named my project 秦 纪 which means qin’s era, history records that during the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the writing system, and all the areas within the Qin Dynasty used a writing system called the Small Seal Script. So I took the element of
Small Seal, and the two characters are written in Small Seal as shown in the picture, then because the background of the conceptual drawing is black, I took another red colour as the colour of 秦 , and then went to white as the colour of 纪 to enhance the contrast, and the two colours of red and white are very compatible with each other. In order to increase the readability and richness of the elements, I added English letters underneath.

Jade Design

The Warring States, Qin and Han period of the jade pendant elaborate and magnificent, and even dozens of small jade pendant, such as jade Juan, jade honing, etc., strung together with silk thread into a group of miscellaneous pendant to highlight the wearer of the noble and majestic Jade pendant can be used as a very small element to influence the overall atmosphere of the character. As the king of a country, I have made reference to some jade pendants with more complicated patterns when designing the jade pendant for him, as this can highlight the nobility and power of Qin Shi Huang. The third one is my favourite among all of them because the totem of the third one is based on the dragon, which is very suitable for the character of Qin Shi Huang, and the pattern graphic elements are more abundant.

Power Imagine

This is how I imagine Qin Shi Huang’s divine power awakening, in ancient
Chinese culture, the colour gold symbolises wealth and magnificence as
well as bravery and justice, so I hope Qin Shi Huang will release a golden
glow when he uses his power. The first one has the Qin character in small
seal script, while the third one has a simpler lotus flower design, as lotus
flowers are usually used for gods. I like the second one the best, there are no
extra elements in the second one, I just made his whole eyeballs emit a golden
glow, but it can give a very majestic feeling.

Final Concept

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