Linnaea Borealis Colour Scheme

After finally choosing the name Lynaea, I decided to use the meaning of her name as a means to create a colour scheme for her. 

Her name happens to derive from a flower called the Linnaea Borealis otherwise known as the Twin Flower. It's a beautiful and delicate looking flower painted in soft tones of pink which I thought I could definitely shape her personality around by researching into colour psychology. Pink and green are also complimentary colours so I'm quite confident that I'd be able to create a good balance of colours for her costume. The addition of yellow and browns might make getting the right set of colours a bit challenging but I now have something I can work with.

When researching into the colour pink, in a nutshell, theses are the main points that I found about the colour that I intend to try incorporate into my character's personality so all her design aspects including colour are all in relation to one another.

Costume and Silhouettes

Costume design is extremely important as it essential part of character design hinting at story and personality. It is an extension of an individual and their persona and can quickly communicate details such as age, sex and origin along with many other defining attributes of the character. 


There was a great  book about costume in relation to body form and poses called Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume.

This book was a interesting read that has a detailed section on proportion and weighting of the body which I found really useful as my anatomy is not really up to scratch.  There are wonderful drawings and diagrams that help put everything into perspective along with techniques and approaches to drawing a figure including stationery and action poses.

There was another very useful book I came across called The Skillful Huntsman by Scott Robertson that one of my peers introduced me to. This book goes through the character design process with a focus on different approaches, namely silhouettes.

Silhouettes are very important when designing a character. It's useful for concept art to get a rough idea of shapes and poses as well as communicating story and personality. Even from silhouettes, you can get an idea of the clothing of the character which, excluding the weapons and equipment make up the majority of the silhouette again showing the importance of costume. Here is one of the pages with the artists approach to the designs.

The Mother Archetype

Archetypes are considered to be an important part of character design as it informs their role and personality. I struggled to find an Archetype suited to the kind of character I wanted to create then found out about Jungian Archetypes one of which is The Mother.

I already established that I wanted her to be a parent and although The Mother Archetype doesn't require the character to be a literal mother it was obviously still very fitting.

These are some of the things I liked the most that I wanted to try include in Lynaea's character.