October Character Blast!
This month's theme: Cold War Soviet Russia (1950's-Early 80's)
I'm throwing these out there, because it has popped into my head.
Ivan: Government exec type, not totally corrupt but not a completely moral guy either. Obviously a drunk.
Dasha: Ivan's wife, high maintenance , reeks of perfume, is still a bit of a looker at late 40's early 50's- but is a bit disgusted with her husband at this point.
Yalena: Ivan's mistress, old country, in her 40's, but from fine farm stock, a plump, hard lived Siberian Gal- yet not bitter, loves life.
Sergei: Soldier in his late 20's, a bit naive but loyal, tho still a slave to his morals. Clean cut.
Olaf: Orphan kid, Gung-ho military- wants to be a soldier when he grows up. Scrappy life on the street.
Alexandr: yes there is no "e." Brute robot- powerful, military, yet not malicious. Big SOB. Design: think space program, migs, russian cameras, etc.
Vasili: The guy who made Alexandr. I picture the guy who invented the ak-47, working for Commies was not a glamorous thing, the ak-47 guy lives in a crap apartment altho having invented the most popular assault rifle in the world. Think late 50's- EDIT: Late 50's to 80's and above, end EDIT:, smart as hell but rode hard and put away wet.
Don't know where this blog is at, but here are some characters in a little world, feel free to use them or not! Happy drawing!
I guess it would be a good idea to tag posts from this theme as "Russian, Cold War" I think tagging is wise to keep consistent for future reference.
I'm throwing these out there, because it has popped into my head.
Ivan: Government exec type, not totally corrupt but not a completely moral guy either. Obviously a drunk.
Dasha: Ivan's wife, high maintenance , reeks of perfume, is still a bit of a looker at late 40's early 50's- but is a bit disgusted with her husband at this point.
Yalena: Ivan's mistress, old country, in her 40's, but from fine farm stock, a plump, hard lived Siberian Gal- yet not bitter, loves life.
Sergei: Soldier in his late 20's, a bit naive but loyal, tho still a slave to his morals. Clean cut.
Olaf: Orphan kid, Gung-ho military- wants to be a soldier when he grows up. Scrappy life on the street.
Alexandr: yes there is no "e." Brute robot- powerful, military, yet not malicious. Big SOB. Design: think space program, migs, russian cameras, etc.
Vasili: The guy who made Alexandr. I picture the guy who invented the ak-47, working for Commies was not a glamorous thing, the ak-47 guy lives in a crap apartment altho having invented the most popular assault rifle in the world. Think late 50's- EDIT: Late 50's to 80's and above, end EDIT:, smart as hell but rode hard and put away wet.
Don't know where this blog is at, but here are some characters in a little world, feel free to use them or not! Happy drawing!
I guess it would be a good idea to tag posts from this theme as "Russian, Cold War" I think tagging is wise to keep consistent for future reference.
Fishy Drama 2
In this post I have some rough fish drawings. Here I was trying to figure what style to use. Originally I was going to just draw them as regular fish with some accents to them to help establish the decade they are in. I soon scrapped that idea for one that would better represent the time period.
The bottom page pretty much has a general idea of most of the "Jets" and the bottom left shows what I currently have for the leader of the "Sharks".
When I clean them up, my hope is to have them look in such a way that the viewer can get a head start on the personality type. Once I establish the look of the characters, I will try and compose them in story situations that will better illustrate their personality's.
The more I draw these guys, the more I want to change the general idea behind the story to one that is mostly about the lead character having to make a moral decision and changing from who he once. I don't know if that would be considered a coming of age movie.
We'll see.
Fishy Drama
Sorry for not posting this at the start of the month.
I am figuring for this month I would try and create characters that are fish. It has been done many times before I'm sure, but for myself, I am trying to build a bigger design vocabulary, and this months word for me is fish.
I plan on designing a small gang of fish set to West side story. I admit that I have not seen this film ,which is good because I might make some changes later on, but overall I will keep it in tact.
The main reason for using an existing story was to try and simulate the role of a character designer when he/she is hired for a project. I'll read up on the plot , gather some reference and hope, by the end of the month,to have created the main characters and maybe conceptualize some scenes.
When all is said and done, perhaps I could use these characters for a more original story sometime in the future.
I hope that everyone else has an opportunity to participate and if so please do not feel that you need to be locked into "West Side Story" story.
Lady Steam-Pirate Colored
So here is the final colored version of the Lady Steam-Pirate I posted a while back. This took a while. I got really carried away with the lighting...
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