It's Cassio Time
Dec. 20th, 2013 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinStrangely enough, I've always had a distinct image of Cassio in my head, though I'm pretty awful at drawing conventionally attractive people (and if he's "framed to make women false" I don't have much wiggle room on that) so never got very far with him. Then one afternoon when I was listening to Othello and doodling, I ate a magic Pocky and BOOM – Cassio. Or at least, something not atrocious which could serve as a starting place. (Be sure to hit the cut after this image because there's more!)(unless you don't want to see more, of course, nobody's making you do anything.)
He's Dreamworksy with a helping of Brad Pitt and just a dash of Mike Surrey if you know what to look for. In the recording I prefer, he's cool and charismatic and manly but also a little whiny, so I didn't want to make him too beefy, but he still has to serve as a contrast to Iago.
At the end, he's been grievously wounded in the thigh, so after I drew the following picture I thought, 'wouldn't it be more amusing and interesting if he were to deliver his mighty vindication from a wheelchair rather than standing?' followed shortly by 'I'm giving them vaguely 19th-century Russian uniforms, why not give him a wheelchair?' So that's it now, headcanon has Cassio in a wheelchair for the rest of the play.
He's Dreamworksy with a helping of Brad Pitt and just a dash of Mike Surrey if you know what to look for. In the recording I prefer, he's cool and charismatic and manly but also a little whiny, so I didn't want to make him too beefy, but he still has to serve as a contrast to Iago.At the end, he's been grievously wounded in the thigh, so after I drew the following picture I thought, 'wouldn't it be more amusing and interesting if he were to deliver his mighty vindication from a wheelchair rather than standing?' followed shortly by 'I'm giving them vaguely 19th-century Russian uniforms, why not give him a wheelchair?' So that's it now, headcanon has Cassio in a wheelchair for the rest of the play.
