Prelim Vector and Finished Vector PI Kricket

A preliminary image of the PI Kricket character. The first is only a profile, and the second was my first attempt at a different angle for a final version.


This is my final for the cahracter. I htink its great, it worked out a lot better than I thought it would. :D

Prelim PI Kricket

So here are some drawings of PI Kricket. It went through a little metamorphosis in design, but I am overall happy with it.

Character Ideas

When I was first told that we would be creating our own character I was a little overwhelmed. I had never designed my own character I was really sure I would be able to do it. My first ideas were of doing an stick insect. But I wasn't very confident about this idea and it didn't stick for me. (link goes to image of a stick bug)


http://funkman.org/animal/insect/stickinsect.html

My second idea was doing a bipedal sort of cricket. However this was preceded with the name of my character. A friend had recently introduced me to the BBC show Sherlock. I honestly loved the show and so when I was thinking of creating a character I had also been thinking about making it a detective of sorts. The first thing that popped in my head was Detective Cricket, but I thought that was too forward or obvious. The the second thing that popped in my head after that was P.I. Crik. It's meant to be a shortened moniker for Private investigator Criket, however I quickly decided I was not liking the "Crik"... So my last and final idea was just to change it to P.I. Kricket. After this I had to come up with a character design. So I looked up photos of crickets and photos of the original Sherlock Holmes character.


http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1890


http://wedangjahe.info/cricket-insect-drawing/


http://www.organicgardeninfo.com/field-cricket.html