Character Design- Body Silhouettes

              Heidi Smith                                                                Kim Roselier

 What both of these character designs show is how effective the silhouette of the body can be to creating a characters personality. By using only the visual symbolism the silhouette of the body creates you can already see that these men are domineering presence and mostly likely physically strong characters. 

Katie Mitroff 

Michael Mccabe

We start to see in both of Mccabes and Mitroff's illustrations that the slumping of the shoulders indicates a sense of uncertainty within both the silhouette and the body language of the character. A pattern you begin to see emerging as you look closer into charter silhouettes is that body language is integral to how characters silhouettes are perceived by the view were. For example slightly lowering of one side of the silhouette creates a sense of stumbering and discoordination within a character.