At the heart of it all character is information and its how the audience percieves this information that we must occupy ourselves with. What the character looks like and indeed what the character is and does is what the audience initially understands, this is bolstered by what the character chooses not to door say. The initial decision of whom or what the character is needs to b considered and documented. The easiest choice is Holding up our hand and saying " its me" because i know what I look like and I know what I would say or do. Documenting your own appearance is only a moments work with a camera. Beyond this you have your family or mates to draw on. So, character design, there is a rather usefully a contemporary sort of art movement centered around character design, PICTOPLASMA is an art movement based in Berlin who have published some inspirational volumes and the collectable vinyl toy fad out of Japan influential and useful because these characters are in 3d already.
My idea on the characters
I have sketch many different designs but I have come around to a sketch that I like. He is an angry teeanger that always has his music blasting out of his headphones which drives this french woman crazy. They sit everyday in the kitchen infront of the flickering television.But they still dont get on seeing as he is a angry person he always walks off but his walk aint average he has a swag. Which always grabs peoples attention.Then the french woman has one leg shorter than the other so she wears a rather large shoe which has a distinctive noise. The only way he chills out is either walk to skate park or graffiti wall. The background will be a french sketchy style to it , which will be a different type of style that I havent done im looking at french animators to get inspiration.