History Of The Defeated
Sitting down after class and just doodling character illustrations for half an hour may be the best mode of decompression I've found so far. It also helps me to fix characters in my head by thinking about them non-verbally.
I told you I was gonna start drawing superheroes. Joe is the central protagonist of a still untitled superhero story that I've been working on for a while. Like the other main characters of this story, Myra Vasquez and Gregory Samson, he is a former sidekick. As a kid he was known as JoJo, the dog-faced boy reporter. Before he was a dog-faced boy reporter, he was just a dog-faced boy. He comes from circus folk and was born with mildly atavistic traits in the form of enhanced senses of smell and hearing, sharp teeth, and a particularly bad case of hypertrichosis. Joe's large ears were cropped into a pointed shape in his youth due to the urging of his parents, in order to enhance his "act".
As an adult, Joe works as a tabloid journalist. He refuses to cover "hero stories", sticking instead to more mainstream celebrities. Out of shape, under slept, drinks and smokes far too much. Wears a rumpled brown trench coat and fedora. Joe carries a cordless electric razor with him and likes to shave his face during spare moments. Despite his efforts, he sports a constant five o'clock shadow.
Joe is far better looking in this sketch than he should be. Probably because I used pictures of Liev Schreiber and Humphrey Bogart as references. Using photographs as references tends to eliminate 95% of the cartoonish style I usually try to go for. I need to collect more comic book scans.
Next up, Myra and Greg.
I told you I was gonna start drawing superheroes. Joe is the central protagonist of a still untitled superhero story that I've been working on for a while. Like the other main characters of this story, Myra Vasquez and Gregory Samson, he is a former sidekick. As a kid he was known as JoJo, the dog-faced boy reporter. Before he was a dog-faced boy reporter, he was just a dog-faced boy. He comes from circus folk and was born with mildly atavistic traits in the form of enhanced senses of smell and hearing, sharp teeth, and a particularly bad case of hypertrichosis. Joe's large ears were cropped into a pointed shape in his youth due to the urging of his parents, in order to enhance his "act".
As an adult, Joe works as a tabloid journalist. He refuses to cover "hero stories", sticking instead to more mainstream celebrities. Out of shape, under slept, drinks and smokes far too much. Wears a rumpled brown trench coat and fedora. Joe carries a cordless electric razor with him and likes to shave his face during spare moments. Despite his efforts, he sports a constant five o'clock shadow.
Joe is far better looking in this sketch than he should be. Probably because I used pictures of Liev Schreiber and Humphrey Bogart as references. Using photographs as references tends to eliminate 95% of the cartoonish style I usually try to go for. I need to collect more comic book scans.
Next up, Myra and Greg.