Birdie Fitzgerald: Bird Enthusiast

For the Figure II final, we designed a human counterpart for our animals. For a worrywart like Bobby, his owner would naturally be a crazy daredevil. Meet Birdie Fitzgerald, business tycoon, Sarasota retiree, motorcycle gang leader, and overall: bird enthusiast (it's on her business card). She's full of energy and enthusiasm for everything, and drags poor Bobby along with her (all he wants to do is be with his girlfriend). Sorry Bobby. At least Birdie can afford all your anxiety medication.

Here's some rough sketches of trying to figure out the character:

BOBBY

More Bobby. It's 2. Gonna sleep now

FLAMINGO BONANZA

 In figure drawing we picked an animal to observe and study.

Meet Bobby, the nervous flamingo!

Updated 2D Final

The final project was interesting: we had to make an abstract grayscale picture that employed all the design concepts we'd been learning about. In the second half of the project we had to make a colored representational picture using the abstract piece as a base.