Yeah, I think comming up with good design it's hard, I my self have been avoiding it for a long time and I'm only focusing on technical skills (waiting to reach term's 5 character design xD).
But don't give up! One thing I have seen every successful artist out there always have in common, is that they have always keep up even in their hardest times. So I think the very very basic key to succces it's never give up! Even if you fail, you would have learnt something.
Thank you everyone for your opinions and support
I've decided to push the 3rd design more and i worked more on the body architecture too.
I like how the 2nd iteration turned out. So for now I will leave it at this stage and I will try to figure out what kind of the talisman she is holding in her hand that gives her the magic power. And then i will see how it works out all together and maybe add a bit more details here and there
and then decide on the colour.
23 days later
I've been away for a while because I had to do a little trip to a different country
So now im back and I am probably way behind everyone else in here but I do not care! haha
Before I left for my holiday I tried to come up with some rough colour schemes that I didn't like in the end of the day.
And Today I decided to tweak the design a bit and add a staff to make it more obvious that she uses magic
Here come colours - my weakest side.
I like this one a lot! While none of your color scheme were bad, she might be my favorite of all those you've posted so far.
One thought I had though, and feel free to ignore it, is that a lot of monkeys have kind of long arms compared to their bodies. I believe they get that to help them when they climb and swing from branches to branches. I'm wondering if you could work that aspect on your character or if it would look too ridiculous.
Either way, I think you've got yourself a very lovely character
Thanks! :>
About the lenght of the limbs... I was experementing on the first stages with it but I decided to go for a monkey girl not necessarily for a female monkey. You know those anime girls with cat's ears and tails? so it is kinda like this. She has some features of a monkey but not a 100% one.
I had in mind a character with longer limbs and more like a monkey (and i did couple of sketches last month) but she turned out to be more evil-looking so I left it out and decided to work on more friendlier character, I hope that this character looks friendly enough
*and yes other colour schemes are absolute disaster haha x) it's ok