Helen McCarthy Project - Robin Silcock Character

Helen McCarthy has set the Games Art course at NUCA a Challenge

Excerpt from Kim Pace's email regarding this Project Below;

"The project set:
To create a character, based on yourself. The character can explore aspects of yourself that you would like to
have or be, or perhaps exaggerate things about you or even fantasy elements. 
If you want to base the character on someone else, make sure you know them well, and can ask
them if they're happy about it.

Produce a series of drawings/ sketches/a back story/ fully rendered images of the character. 
You can also work in 3D - either digitally or model-making. Remember, Helen also suggested you could cos-play your character!"

The talk which McCarthy gave about her study of Kuwaii and Doll characters made me want to consider what personal qualities make me "me", what qualities I would wish to have, and how I can communicate that through the design and story of my created character.

Marie Claire spoke about the decisions she made when designing her own 'mini-me' character. She chose the character to have an artist's smock as that was her self-made uniform when she was working abroad in Japan, she also chose to highlight her very distinctive curly hair in her character - the result was a simple, yet recognisable version of herself.

I consider myself to be a very strong willed and determined person - I imagine that if I was a fictional character, I would be the one to accept that what needs to be done, needs doing and if no-one else volunteers, that I would do it. In reality I am probably not as brave as the heroine figure to which I aspire. 

On a more casual note; I love the colour red - so whatever I am wearing it has to be red. I have always wanted a great mane of purple/red hair ending somewhere around my hips - but in reality the care for that amount of hair is far too tiring! I have also wanted a cape from as long as I can remember - however society might look upon that fashion choice in a different light so I have opted out (for now).

I will continue to self-evaluate through my sketching, but for now here are some well known characters which I just love! Note: There are probably countless others such as Shakespear, William Blake, Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Chopin to name a few; but here are a few more below.

Black Widow

http://www.womensabworkout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Scarlett-Johansson-as-Black-Widow-in-Iron-Man-2.jpg

Pheonix

http://x.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/f/30/4bc654cf9d0ac/detail.jpg

Xena Warrior Princess

http://www.womenlargejaw.com/sites/www.womenlargejaw.com/files/women/Lucy%20lawless%20-%20xena%20warrior%20princess_1241564937.jpg

Robin Hood

http://www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk/w's%20craft%20corner/robin_hood.gif

And non-fantasy and more 'grey-matter' role models of mine;

Helen Mirren

http://www.vettri.net/gallery/celeb/helen_mirren/80th-Annual-Academy-Awards/HelenMirren-80thAnnualAcademyAwards_Vettri.Net-19.jpg

Dame Judi Dench

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5Sj6BXHBhzllXMfHXV9yhFxUFvwGTzlNzNCc4kaIueSYz9dIrYmH8mWI9bcpmymCBxcfn5TqSkmKiLhNcE2tNvhTfAG-PVHwcwKcwbAlZuyOnKzpkLUWtelpQmogKLSmeEvAsBcm99E/s400/james-bond-18-1.jpg

Julie Walters

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/7/1275873960929/Julie-Walters-at-the-Baft-006.jpg

Maggie Smith

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/1336/547261-maggie_smith.jpg

Jane McGonigal

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mcgonigal_jane-8485.jpg

Robin Hunicke

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2250753624_4b6d22b7ec.jpg

Jenova Chen

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXi1PHEmfhc5gg0MFDxQ_6Y3iS1GTZs4_7d66FlrcMjzphOmmQB7blUoT2copMWv2ZqfBY353Pe_PGrcEtl-zjgtEW0KUFeAgJEEa26zc6HfA9hK_GAPRHx3_l1F2VVxESSceMdzr4XsE/s400/Jenova+Chen.jpg

Richard and Joan Branson

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01563/bransons_1563064a.jpg

Barack Obama

http://sparklightadvocacy.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/barack-obama-fairey-hope.jpg