Starting to take off!

Today I started working on my first character design which is a muscular cowboy who uses hands to fight rather than guns. I started by first getting the basic shape down by using a 500x500 pixel grid which I will then minimise to 200x200. Using a simple brush tool on black I made the outline. Which I than refined by using the erase tool to get rid of excess lines and making it look a lot neater. I need to complete a character concept and design in the first week according to our plan. This is the frame 1 for the idle pose which will have 3 frames arms moving down and up.

Above is the initial stage which I refined and I still need to add more detail to it and I also need to fix the cowboy hat and face too. But it's getting there.

I added the detail for the trousers and the muscles it can be still improved by fixing the hat which I tried to do and it seems to mess up. I moved onto colouring after this stage.

I added some of a darker red to the trousers first and after this I am going to add a lighter red showing where the light is coming from.

I added the lighter red which I think could be lighter to show the light more effectively or the dark red could be darker.

Now i added some skin colour for the muscles which are going to be visible and the rest of the upper body will have a shirt without sleeves on. This is because it would show how strong my character is. I started a little shading on the muscles but more to do.

I added some better shading showing the muscles in a lot better way. I could improve it by making the dark shade more darker.

Gloves and belt coloured still needs some more shading and a different colour for the belt metal bit.

I done the shirt for the character which needs more work on the shading which I will do tomorrow.