Character: Zen

Before the summer holidays started I made a character. He was supposed to be a vocaloid or something, but I ended up making up all sorts of rules for him, and I decided he'd be better off as my original character. At the time I simply named him "No.17", and he was to have no other name.

The only things about him was his as his system ran out of power, his color would grow darker. I made a little drawing of him, but when I went home for the holidays I forgot to bring it with me home.

I really liked the concept, so I decided that I would draw a reference for him, even though I knew I couldn't remember him fully. (In retrospect I did remember quite a lot, but the first drawing is still the one I like better.) Adding the white as the 'turned off/out of power' and working out how he would read memory cards and such was quite fun, but I keep finding slight logical problems with some of it. His number also changed to 15, which I think I am actually more happy with.

 

Now that I have both drawings I am currently working on fixing things up so that he can make some more sense, starting from the bottom (more or less). Just because none of my other characters know everything about him and realize what he is capable of doesn't mean I shouldn't. So I have started with how he is built. Mind you, I am not in robotics, nor do I ever plan to be, so I am just having some fun with this.

I have decided that he is mainly a soft silicone like material on the outside, covering up the wires on the inside and he is put together similar to a ball joint doll in terms of of the joints. So if his elbow broke down you'd have to replace that part of the arm. The silicon stuff would make too much a mess and look really ugly if you started fiddling around with it, so in the robot recycle it goes.

I am keeping the off button locates at his neck, so he still hates hugs. The power plug have become some mishmash between the two, because it looks more fun to draw that way when you plug him in to recharge. Bunch of wires everywhere =D

This would be as far as I have gotten to with my dear little green glowing guy for now. There will probably be a lot more working on him before I end up with a more or less final result. But that's the fun with making a character, you get to know them and find out what works with them and what doesn't.