Gid Character Design
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on June 30, 2008 at 4:57 PM
I'm doing lots of design work and model designs (and bitching about it the whole time) for Card Cheat. It's good process and will help me keep consistent character designs through out the book (which is looking to be six issues long).
Here's the Gid Webb Process:
He started a bit rounder, a bit of sloth. He has a couple of nasty habits that wouldn't let this happen though, and he's too vain to let himself really go.
I stepped back and focused on his face.
I refined his face a bit and drew a horse. Cause it's a western and has horses. Plus, drawing characters standing around for design sheets bores the crap out of me, so I try to do various stances and situations when I can.
Standard model sheet with a straight ahead view, a profile and a close up. The hair color was way wrong though. As Marc said "I don't think they had peroxide hair bleach back then."
And through the magic of Photoshop, Presto! Gideon Webb: All ready to get in to all sorts of trouble.
