Danyal Fairburn: Week Three; Cubee Man

Week 3 quickly rolls around and we started a “Cubee Man” project, where essentially we design a super hero character fit to translate onto a cube man. My initial ideas were based around masks - as most super heroes have masks – therefore I started to look at Mexican wrestling masks and try take some influence off some of their design and combine them with some well renowned super hero designs. After a few initial sketches and playing around on photoshop to get my final product.

I decided I was not happy with my final product due to my over-use of dark colours and lack of detail and started a fresh. The next iteration I tried to move onto more animal based textures and forms, rather than getting influence off someone else’s designs. So after a few iterations I came up with my current design, which I have dubbed "Eagle Beak", since sadly "Hawk Eye" was taken.

My texture map for the redesigned "Eagle Beak" Cubee Man

This design originated from the pictures and sketches I produced when a Sparrowhawk landed in my garden after successfully hunting a pigeon, quite a rare sight for the town of Ipswich!

The visual design task for this week was looking at buildings and objects in two point perspective, so I went around Leicester, mostly towards the town area looking at the buildings and drawing them from a two point perspective. Sadly I was hindered on the final part of the week and had to spend the rest of the week on crutches/in bed and unable to get out and sketch, so I’ll upload my sketches from the first week and extras that I’ve been saving up to supplement.