Other People's Characters

[tealin]

There was life drawing at work tonight. It was in a part of the studio I don't normally visit, and a fair number of people there were working on their assorted projects while we were drawing the model. One of them was animating a scene to John Goodman's reading of a line that went (more or less) 'Yes, Santa Claus! And their new reindeer friend...' I couldn't resist, and doodled this, which instantly proved to me that I have watched Emperor's New Groove way too much, because not only did I automatically picture Pacha saying the line but the characters turned out roughly on model without any reference or much effort.

disneyboy has very graciously given me an Assignment, for the purposes of actually doing some animation rather than just putting it off in favour of practical things or projects for other people. It's going to be a section of The Hostile Hospital, so I'm starting to work on learning to draw Klaus, who is the principal character in the scene. I figure if I can manage to make him look like Klaus without his glasses, I'll have him down, but I find him constantly drifting towards Betty Boop. Blargh. Anyway, apart from that, I was surprised at how, in the few days since studying Mr Helquist's illustrations (to no discernible effect at the time) I seem to have made progress towards replicating his curves-vs-straights and drapery styles which are so foreign to my own.

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“Yay, I’m a reindeer again! Oh, wait…”

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I hardly expect Klaus's given name is meant to denote Teutonic extraction; after all, the family name is Baudelaire and his sisters are named Violet and Sunny so I suspect his name was chosen on the basis of sounding cool, or possibly as an allusion to something. His lips are just that full and his eyes possibly even more defined in the original illustrations, where (especially in the painted ones) you can see his upper lid as well, giving him a 'classical eye' as described by a makeup artist on a show I was in. My mom's got that, and she's of French extraction, so ... there you go. Luckily such matters aren't addressed much in the books so I can just go with whatever the magnificent Mr Helquist decrees and not think about it too much.

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