Martin Sawkins Gallery Character Design, Concept-Art

Character Design

Above is a gallery of some of the character designs I’ve created over the years.

Below is an example of my character design process, which in this case is creating a male npc design for Borderlands 2.

After receiving the brief from Scott Kester (Art Director) I started off with a quick round of concepts, at this stage it’s all about the ideas, I sent in my initial 8 ideas.

Borderlands 2 Male npc design concepts 1-4
Borderlands 2 Male npc design concepts 5-7

After talking to Scott to see what was good and what was not I worked further upon concepts 2 and 6.

Designs based on the first concept ‘2’.
Designs based on the first concept ‘6’.

After further discussion I worked on character progression levels using 6-1, 6-2 and 6-3

Further designs based on concept 1
Further ideation based on the final design 2.
Further ideation based on the final design 6.

After further discussion I came up with 2 tighter designs.

After we finalized all the details, textures and colors we had our final Borderlands 2 Male NPC.

And as always I followed up with a callout sheet for production.