A Search for the Perfect Website Design

So for my portfolio class, I need to make a website...
My roomie, Jenna tells me, "Why don't you look at some tailor websites for inspiration?"
"Yes, Jenna! That's a great idea!" I go on google to look at some tailor websites and.... they all really stunk! There was only one I found that was really cool looking, it was called, "Tailor". It was neat and vintage looking and everything! But then I found out..... it was a restaurant... called Tailor...............
This is my conclusion after that night:

Parents....

Guess who! That's right, it's Taylor when he was a lad.
I know what your thinking.... what horrible people made him a crazed thumb-cutting tailor, huh? Well...

These two! Haha. I was having fun with my roommate the other day and we challenged each other to draw each others thesis character's parents. She said Kathryn's parents were too easy... this was fun though. Made me explore my Tailor character a bit more.

He never really wanted to be a crazy Tailor who cut thumbs off bad kids, all he wanted to be was a lumberjack! But coming from a long line of tailors:



Parents, never stunt your child's dreams...

The Characters

Hello Dearies!
I finally got everything nice and organized! Here are the characters of my new film! The top image was the first concept I ever drew of them. Designing characters is a tough and rigorous process. You must go through sketch after sketch after sketch. Nothing looks right the very first time. Or at least for me, hehe. Here's some process for the hero of our story, Kathryn and also our villian, the tailor.
Exploring Kathryn's Design
Some hair choices, I liked #5 (first one on second row) but it was too similar to the Tailor (pointy and edgy looking) they wanted her more round and heart shaped.

Exploring Taylor the Tailor's Design

Costume Design for Kathryn.

Costume Design for the Tailor, he dresses like such a gentleman!

Finalizing the dress design for our heroine!

Final Design for Kathryn

Final Design for the Tailor

Now, for these two at least, I had a set vision for what I wanted them to look like. But most of the time, I'll go even farther with concept sketches. I loved doing costume research for them though! BLISS.