Demonic Barbery

[tealin]

Just when you thought I was never going to post another drawing again:

   

I've been working on designs for these two for yet another ridiculous crossover gag, but as I don't know when I'm going to finish that I thought I should at least toss these to the ravening maw of the Intarweb. Mrs Lovett came pretty easily as I went to school with someone who could have been her brother and a caricature language was established by those more clever than me. Mr Todd was more of a challenge ... I had a design I liked a few days ago, which I hated last night so I did some more and got one I liked better, which did not satisfy me this morning. I fiddled around with it in Photoshop, tweaking things here and there, and got what you see up there, which is fine for now but will probably change tomorrow. I'd like to implement the small epiphany I had regarding his awesome but baffling hair, among other things, but on top of this I have a nagging feeling that I'm making the whole process way more complicated than I need to.

By the way, what aid is there for a poor soul who is addicted to the soundtrack? Ever since I found it on someone's playlist at work I haven't been able to stop listening to it despite giving up soundtracks for Lent (so weak! So, so weak!). Is it better to quit cold turkey or limit myself to one song a day? It doesn't help that 'Joanna (Reprise)' is so fun to whistle while walking to the line test machine...

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I need to get me a Sweeney Todd icon

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

LAWL BASED OFF OF THE MOVIE VERSION A BIT? But I believe that's intention- OMG CROSSOVER WHAT TYPE OF CROSSOVER, WITH WHAT? :D

I've heard that the movie soundtrack has more songs on it than the movie had, but . . . I love my broadway soundtrack so very much. There's . . . another Johanna version that the judge sings. It's . . . delightfully terrible.

LJAHDFKJASD SOUNDTRACK, THOUGH. I'M ADDICTED TO THIS SHOW SO BADLY. And, um. No advice for the Lent thing; Jewish. Buuuut you could go look up the lyrics and sing the songs yourself instead of listening? (I like Epiphany rather a lot, myself. No idea why.)

Re: I need to get me a Sweeney Todd icon

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, COMPLETELY movie version. I walked out of the theatre the first time seeing it thinking 'I gotta draw me some caricatures' but am only just getting around to it.

When I found the soundtrack at work, nothing jumped out at me that hadn't been in the movie. A look at the track listing between the movie and stage soundtracks only turns up the aforementioned Johanna song as well as the bookending Ballads of Sweeney Todd as missing in the film version... I missed the Ballad as it had been my favourite piece when I listened to the soundtrack years ago, but upon listening to it again I realised the opening music to the movie is just the orchestral part of that, which is especially cool because I've always wanted to hear just the orchestra parts in musicals. So that's OK. And I like a few songs more than that one, now. As for the judge's song, I'm OK with it being left out in the interest of time and simplicity ... I think they made Judge Turpin enough of a demon in the movie that ramping it up even more would only have verged him into the ridiculous and he wouldn't have been as strong a villain that way.

As for the crossover ... you will just have to see. }: )

P.S.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I had heard Tony Head had been cast in the movie to do a singing part, but he's only got one very short line in the finished version, so I'm curious to see if the cut song is on the DVD or if they even shot it at all, and what it is.