Tuesday Oddities - Original Pencil Sketches

sketches are how every character design start out. Design conflicts have kept certain characters in the series back from being introduced earlier, and I never include a character unless I'm happy with the way they look. Today for Tuesday Oddities, I have for you a series of original pencil sketches of various characters.

First off are some Season 3 designs. Season 3 was a turning point, as pretty much every character in the series had an update to their look from the previous seasons. Sam's look in particular is important, as this design has remained the same ever since (give or take a few smaller tweaks). Megan and Joel, as new characters, were done in pencil first to see if I liked the way they looked. Nick was also done this way, but unfortunately I seem to have misplaced Nick's original pencil sketch.

Next for you, I have a Season 5 redesigns of Sam and Shannon. Neither of these designs actually caught on, and both characters retained their Season IV looks (and still do).

Finally for today, we have some Season Six sketches. Several characters were redesigned in this season, and as per usual, Kenzie's look was updated. Her redesign started before Season 5 had ended, and was still in question up until Season Six began. Her initial redesign was drastically different from any previous Kenzie design, as it changed her outfit completely by giving her a new striped shirt and jacket and removing her "Amer-Ican" logo. In the end, I decided the old logo itself was a part of Kenzie's character, and added the legend back onto her new shirt. Her hair design was changed last second. An alternate version of Kenzie was drafted, but never used that had Kenzie dressed as a "Hipster".

 

Kenzie wasn't the only one who was redesigned. Bailey, Molly, Elino, and Gabri all were redone. Molly and Elino's changes were simply to the lengths of their hair, so they didn't get new sketches. Bailey's sketch, similar to Kenzie's, gave her a new outfit including a jacket. One sketch had her with a scarf instead of her necklace, but in the picture below, I decided against the scarf and X'd it out. Her hair was an updated version of the Season 5 ponytail, which was an update of her Season 2 design. Gabri was given a new sleeveless shirt, sunglasses, and longer hair. In the earliest colored pictures for Season Six, Gabri's new shirt was colored blue, but in every subsequent appearance, it was back to grey.