T. K. Arispe

More work from my character design class in college, including practicing aging characters, making up our own superhero, an alien rock star, and an agricultural faun.

 Also, more fleshed-out character designs for that Western cast project I mentioned in my last post.

Honestly that project got on my nerves in more ways than one, because aside from the cliché characters, the story pitch specified that it took place in South Dakota in the 1840's, and South Dakota did not become a state until 1889 (to say nothing of the fact that it did not start to be extensively settled until the latter half of the 19th century). The characters definitely gave off more of the vibe of a stereotypical turn-of-the-century Western setting than early frontier America, so that threw me off a bit.

To add to my OCD, when we did a class roundtable discussing everyone's designs for the young female lead (upper left of the image), the teacher commented that the ringlets on my character's design made her look juvenile. This irked me because I had actually spent time researching 1840's women's fashion and yes, women of every age wore their hair like this back then. I was just trying to stay true to the specified historical period. And yet the teacher didn't have any critical comments when some of my classmates showed designs that looked like modern cowgirls. Am I the only stickler for historical accuracy around here?! Five minutes of research. That's all I'm asking of people. Five minutes of research would have told you that South Dakota as such did not exist in the 1840's.

I'll... I'll just be over here in my fussbudget corner.