Character design sheets- Florence Nightingale

In order to start working on my character designs, i created some character sheets to show Florence with different expressions, and from different angles. As i am drawing Florence from 3 different ages in her life, i have created 3 character sheets to explore these individually, in depth. 

 

Not only did i focus on poses, expressions and angles, but i also began to look at outfits. I included a full body shot on each sheet in order to see what my characters faces will look like when combined with a traditional outfit from the time period and i feel that this was a really successful idea as it made it a lot easier to replicate and re pose Florence later down the line, without starting from scratch.

Colour choices directly referenced from children's clothing during one 1820’s- Lots of light pastel tones in pinks, blues and greens. Using the baby pink and baby blue to reflect her age as these colours are more so linked to younger children. 

Colours became more muted in the 1830's - lots more earth tones as well as darker, more muted greens, yellows and blues. Colours becoming more ‘mature’ as Florence ages into a young woman- moving away from the pastel tones into a stronger palette to reflect this. 

Nursing uniforms were mainly worn by the lower class- colour reflected wealth when it came to clothing so the uniforms were dull and mainly black and white. I didn’t want my illustrations to be too heavy as I’m targeting these designs towards a young audience so the black has been switched to grey to keep the illustrations light hearted and delicate. 

Experimenting with hair colour and how this ages the character depending on the shade ^