IT LIIIIIIVES (for now)

[tealin]

I've decided to take it a little bit easier with this animation test at work, and do some more art in my spare time. What, though? Well, I poked around the internet a little bit and discovered that lo, Herbert West is PUBLIC DOMAIN.



MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!


I read the first story over again today at lunch (so appetizing!) hence the youthful visage. First, a page of exploratory doodles where I try to find a head shape that takes him out of the Milo/Wiggins hybrid he was before. Just when I thought all hope was lost, something finally clicked: shorten his face, duh! Thank you David Hyde Pierce for being nerdy and short-faced.

So, then it was turning the page – I'm trying to draw on only one side of the paper now so I was unable to look across my sketchbook at what I'd just done and had to remember it. Urmh, effort. I also thought I'd try a trick someone was talking about at work, where you do a pose and then another pose that could animate off it, or an antic and then a pose or just two consecutive poses or ... I'm getting technical. Drawings:
I like to think it shows that I've been running copies of Tony Fucile drawings for my sister. I was hesitant about giving him a big nose because I went through the phase of Big Nose = More Interesting Design, but it seemed to contrast nicely with the other shapes of his face, emphasizes the horizontal, and has acute angles and a small enough base that it doesn't look like a 'big nose,' it just happens to stick out a long way. And it helps set him apart from the characters he was resembling before. Is this true, or is it wishful thinking? Also, are these just way too big? They looked appropriately small when I resized them in Photoshop but in blog context they look a little .... big. And I don't remember what resolution my monitor is. Also, am I stealing this design from something? I'm starting to get annoying at work for pointing to a design and saying 'that looks like so-and-so' but it's practically impossible to do that with my own stuff.

Mr Narrator will be next, then (if attention span allows) maybe some scene studies or something. I've got plans for you two, oh yes, even if it takes seventeen years...

Comments

[myster-web.livejournal.com]

I can definitely see the change and improvement from your earlier designs, but he still is the same old crazy mad scientist! :) He's got a bit more character to his face with it being shortened and the longer nose actually works! (I have a love-hate relationship with noses myself) I'm still not letting him in my house though...