Character Design: The Daughter1 - Development and Final Design

One of the two daughters of the Erlking. The design is a combination of both mine and PG's ideas. The daughter is supposed to look friendly and nice in the beginning, to lure the son to the forest, however the expression sheet which is in progress will reveal her true, evil self.
(slightly longer legs and neck intended)

Character Design: The Son 02

After agreeing on a head that we both liked I began  developing the Sons clothing designs with a body that we liked , we decided to aim for more of a peasant look after the feed back that we received. I really like B,D and G. 

Character Design: The Elking - Head and Body Test

The further development of the outfit and how combining two promising ones gave out the final result. Also tests of different crowns together with the outfit.

Character Design: Developing the King's Crown

Below is a page of few development sketches. The small drawing in the right corner is the face I would really like to be the king's final appearance. 

My personal favourites are: 13, 17 and 19, especially last two because they give an impression of the king wearing a mask on top of his wooden body.

Character Design: Developing the King's Outfit

 Below is a further research and development of the Erlking's outfit. A little bit less forest-like, more celtic and elvish. My personal favourties are number 7 and 8, however I am not quite sure if either of them is THE outfit.

Character Design: Daughter 01

The design for the daughters are suppose to reflect aspects of the forest, the daughter that I am focussing on personifies the poisonous animals that you might find in a forest. 

For the daughter I like E, I and  H if she had a little bit more of a feminine chin, and I like the markings on B. 

Developed faces 

Initial Faces 

Some of the faces here are a little too young because we thought that to allow the girls to not appear sexual they had to be younger but after discussing it we considered finding the right body type and outfit that wasn't too exposing would also change the sexual look that the girls had in the animatic. In the beginning I thought that because they were of the forest, they had to have every element of them covered with the forest. But the poem is written in the German Romantic era and we wanted to bring in some of those elements in their clothing. The drawings that I am leaning more towards combines the two elements, numbers 8, 10,7 and 4 I believe need to be developed further. 

Initial bodies and outfits

Character Design: The Daughter .01

Just few initial sketches of one of the Erlking's daughters. 

She is supposed to be pretty and inviting, also a representative of the forest, however with a small hint of evil; not seductive and not a grown-up.