Male character rough designs

Iv designed a few rough male characters and I have chosen which one Im really happy with and like and I am currently working on the model sheet for the character.
Here are the few rough designs:

Again with this character I also want it to be less 'cartoony' because it just doesn't look right to me and I don't feel happy with that style, so sticking to the style I wanted to do to begin with. Also keeping in mind that its based around sometime in the 50's so I had to research the fashion and style of the clothes the men wore around that time and I loved the idea of the braces, shirt and tie, your typical sort of 50's business man.

Colour Palette

This is just a quick colour palette I have made for the female character when she is in her army clothes, I will make a more professional one than this soon.

 

Final female design

I chose which design for the final female character I was happy with and liked the most and I then created a model sheet for the female character when shes in the army:

When it comes to making my final film, pretty much all the shots and scenes iv planned out and the characters will be zoomed in on, mostly on the top half of their body or face, which will then make it easier for me to add more detail with the colours on the face for example, unlike on this model sheet where because they are smaller it makes it harder to do more detail and see more detail. 

Rough designs

These are some designs I came up with for the Female Character, going back to the way I wanted to design my character in the first place.

 

I decided I wanted a less 'cartoony' type character. I wanted the colours of the character to give a lot of detail, and also whilst looking at comic/graphic novels, I noticed that the characters are very square, and are drawn with mostly straight lines like this:

 With the style I want and the way I want to use the colours, this is what Im looking to go for:

This is a piece of unfinished artwork that iv been working on thats nothing to do with this project but just to show how I want to use the colours, I may make my character a little less detailed than this with the colours because there is a set time for me to get this done but this is the direction I want to go with my character in terms of colours. 

Character designs

Here are a couple more character designs I have come up with for the female character but again my lecturer Caroline did not like these, so Im going back to the more stylized drawing I use to do because thats the way I wanted my characters to be like in the first place, but with so much research and inspiration you can tend to go off track and with different people telling you different things, im just going to stick to what I planned to do in the first place.

I first started with the shape of n hour glass:

 I then drew a basic outline over the top:

Drew the main outline over the top:

 And then coloured it in, and done the same for when she changes to go into the Army:

Thumbnail storyboard

 This is my thumbnail storyboard I have roughly done, so I know what will be happening in each scene and each shot. I'm now in the middle of creating a rough storyboard from which people should hopefully be able to tell whats happening in that one, along with the script, description of whats happening and dialogue if any.

character research

 One of the things my lecturer told me to look at for character design is 'Tank Girl'. This is very much the style i am looking for.

Another thing I thought of when thinking about character design was the character for Gorillaz, I was thinking of looking at this style more so for the male and zombie characters.