Mary Anning | Body type + colour exploration

This weekend I've been doing some explorations of different body types and clothing options for Mary. After doing some research of how the fashion style looked like in the XIX century, I started to work directly with brush strokes. It always helps me out in this stage to work directly with shapes and colour masses to understand better the proportions and space that the character will occupy on the screen and how she will interact with her surroundings. For the colour palette I wanted to use some earthy and sea related colours to connect Mary to the cliffs she lived and worked in but also adding a little warmer/brighter detail on the neck ribbon to make the top area of her character catch the attention of the viewer and highlight her passionate personality. My overall goal with her character design is to try to avoid heteronormative stereotypes of how the female body should look like and to explore a wider range of silhouettes. More to come soon! :)