I continued to work on the pose and expression sheets for my character design. Once I got going I was enjoying it much more. I just struggled to think of poses. Most of them are quite simple arm movements because his weight restricts his motion. I did one with his hands on his hips because I think he is quite a grumpy and sassy person. I then have him with his hand out. I imagined this as his 'tickets please' pose. Then one of him waving his hat as a signal or something of that nature. This one was when I realised that I'd not thought about what exactly was under his hat. I then also did one of him sat down. I decided that because he was so big. His legs would point straight out rather than bend at the knees. Him being a train conductor means there aren't many other poses that I could think he would be doing.
The expressions were more fun to play with because his fat chin and jaw are more easily movable. His jaw is one big entity to just move under so it doesn't matter how his mouth moves.
I really enjoyed creating this character once I got going. I think I've struggled with it because I wasn't enthusiastic about the idea for my character. I wasn't entirely invested in making him which made it much harder to stay motivated and actually do it. It became much better as I went along when I started to feel more confident with what I'd created. I started to enjoy it much more. I'm pretty happy with my character even though I'm still not entirely keen on the idea he's based on. I'm not too sure how effective he is as his conductor character as many people have mistaken him for a policeman. In hindsight, I should have probably added some more distinguishable features that really hinted towards the train conductor character.
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