I've had a lot of time to think about the Librarians body shape between all the classes that I have had to attend with not much time for design work inbetween.
I was sketching exagerrated and sharp body shapes when it came to mind that the perfect character to look at to research what I want to achieve would be 'the other mother' from Coraline:
I love the spider and bug quality that she has whilst still keeing a basic human figure. The aspect that I most like about her design is her very slim and slender waist, neck, legs and arms that protrude from an exagerrated chest and hips; her neck is of particular interest in the way it is made to look longer by continuing down into her clothes and then forming the waist.
I have done some sketches of her basic body shape from looking at the mood board above:
I was particularly taken with the images below for their unnerving quality. The body shape in the image above, whilst good is slightly too femine with the larger hips and slim waist coming down from a slightly larger chest piece. The images below will work better with my Librarian character design and the masculine qualities I need to bring to the body shape without too much obvious human definition.
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