In this project we were asked to design two characters, in the brief it was suggested we look at good and bad, black and white, yin and yang. The second suggestion was to pick a theme, this list was varied, nuclear, and mythical, and I chose nature.
Yin and Yang suggests to me and represents cycles and balances. You cannot have good without bad. I tried to look at this in a broader sense, that is to say that bad is only bad because it is not what good is, not necessarily because it does wrenched things.
In regards nature I thought about how it works at a self-contained unit. The eco system survives winter and summer. Animals consuming the bounty of the forest, and the forest in turn consuming the animals when they reach the end of their life cycle returning their energy to the forest for the cycle to continue again, on and on.
yin and yand are complementary opposits, neither is superior, if one increases the other decreases, just like the harmony of a forest, it must be balanced carefully.
Yin and Yang suggests to me and represents cycles and balances. You cannot have good without bad. I tried to look at this in a broader sense, that is to say that bad is only bad because it is not what good is, not necessarily because it does wrenched things.
In regards nature I thought about how it works at a self-contained unit. The eco system survives winter and summer. Animals consuming the bounty of the forest, and the forest in turn consuming the animals when they reach the end of their life cycle returning their energy to the forest for the cycle to continue again, on and on.
yin and yand are complementary opposits, neither is superior, if one increases the other decreases, just like the harmony of a forest, it must be balanced carefully.
my first character, yin the female is designed to frpersent the roots of a fungus, a place upon the forest she appears where there is death and decay but she always leaves a golden behind the beginnings of something new.
my second character yang, male and the bright side of the scale. he is born of decay and rot, he gorges on the bounty of the forest, destroying to an extent that which he touches. he is the life force of the forest. alive only because of yin.
a suggestion of scale, yim may be smaller above ground, but she is part of a comples root system all of her components share a hive mind whereas yang is larger, an individual. yin gives life to all of the forest creatures then finishes what they begin.
