The purpose of this exercise was to improve my digital line work as well as start to redesign the characters from my old college project. Through doing this study I have figured out how to set brushes up that produce clean, smother line work. Also through a bit of research into Illustrator I have discovered the "Live Trace" tool which when used on black line work can be used to tweak the final thickness, tapering and smoothness of the line by using presets or by individually adjusting different values individually.

While I have found this a valuable case study i do feel that doing this digitally is far to time consuming for me at my current level of proficiency with a graphics tablet. A more time effective work flow for this style of art would be to ink the lines traditionally then scan the work in, separate the line work from the background (which is very quick to do as it turns out) then process that through Illustrator before painting in colour and tone.

Style wise I am fairly happy with this work, I achieved a style roughly what I was aiming at however I am looking forward to taking these further and into a more realistic art style which I will explore next. 

Design wise I feel these serve as a decent starting point for the characters but I want to develop them further. 

The characters are based on an idea for a comic book series. The story follows the exploits of a team of intergalactic bounty hunters in a future when humans are considered as one of the lowest species in the galaxy.