Back to my
doodle scraps today. I think of them as messy musings on texture, action and
character, I think of them as a lot of different things it seems. Projections
of my brain onto a page. The first image has some more spiky haired poses with
some facial hair scribbles and a hairy troll like creature with a staff. I
remember I was reading the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant at the time and
this was inspired by the hairy troll-like creatures in it whose name I can’t
remember right now.
Then we
have ‘The Helmet’, I’m not sure where he came from or to which recess of my
brain he has gone to since but I do remember wondering if his wearing a fancy
helmet was enough to warrant a superhero career or just gave him the power to
access any construction site in the world. I’m not sure if the guy on the right
was meant to be his mild-mannered alter-ego, let’s say yes.
I really
like the lines of action through the figure on the left. I love the shape of
the face mask too. He makes me think of a vicious ballet dancer and reminds me
of Vega from Street Fighter II, probably my favourite character from the game
to look at but not my favourite to play with. I’d have to argue that out with
myself and if I got started this post would probably go on forever so I’ll
leave it for another time (Ryu, yeah maybe, but what about Sagat, Balrog had
his pugilist charms and Dhalsim was fun, stop, stop).
Lots of
body poses on these pages, they remind me of the importance of the body in
communicating emotion and mood. The stance of a character, be it the tilt of a
head or even the flick of a finger, all help to express what is happening in a
characters paper and ink mind.
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