Pick N' Mix: Character designs

As my project is set in the middle ages but has to be influenced by work from St Ives school of art.

So for my characters I tried to marry Julian Trevelyan's paintings of people with the dark strong lines from medieval wood etchings.

'Paddle Steamer', 1986, by Julian Trevelyan

Some of the first designs were interesting but I didn't really feel like they felt right in my settings.

But then I started to play around with the main shapes of the characters and this time I felt like I was reflecting a bit of St Ives abstract elements.