Taurus Character Design
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on August 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Taurus, the villain of Card Cheat is the leader of a small gang that hounds our Hero.
"Too much mouth" was the feedback on this one. Marc's keeping me on task by not letting me get away with overly simple faces. That's not say there won't be style to the book, but I want to tighten up my drawing a bit.
This might be the worst I've ever done.
Much better.
Taurus! We wanted to avoid pure black/traditional villain colors, so we just stayed in the darker hues.
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.
Back in action with The Card Cheat
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on May 21, 2008 at 2:27 PM
One of my "attempt to return to comics" projects this year is The Card Cheat with my constant comics partner Marc Bryant (he wrote Overtime and the Passenger, my past two forays in to major comic work). It's a western, and going to be color when we pitch it, so it takes advantage of you know, the fact that I've gotten better after 4 years, can actually draw things like horses and hands, and don't walk around with my feathers all showing like I used too. Or at least not as much.
It's been about 4 years since I've had a big comic project out there, so it's nice to be working on this and Sam Koi with Rhiannon at the same time.
Anyway Marc and I have been going back and forth about story structure and beats, so I'm turning to character design over the next few weeks.
Stab one at Taurus, a villain.
Got some feedback from Marc, so it's on to sketch two.
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