Here’s the painted version. I put a print on ebay with a buy-it-now for $25—it sold in 3 hours. Now onward to paint the next print! Love Rogue enough to buy? Check out my auctions and score yourself a print!
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This is a first sketch trying to find the look of our Druid character, Iliuhe. I really like where this is headed, so I’ll explore some variations in this direction.
Keep drawing.
Here’s todays work on WTB Chicken. There are other sheets but I couldn’t hold my iPhone high enough to get them in frame. It feels good to work out visuals to a great script… Keep drawing.
I’m searching for Orock’s character in these sketches. Crom and I have talked extensively about Orock, and this first story’s intent is to clearly show his desire. In order to carry us through a number of story arcs this has to be most clear.
These sketches, although not hitting the mark, do have a few qualities I can see making it to his final design. The most obvious is his stout frame, (he is a dwarf after all), and the overall sturdiness. The standing pose is interesting, only because Orock was a Knight at one time, and he defected from his King and kingdom—all for a chicken.
In the top right sketch I was playing with something a little more cat-like. Josephine is a chicken, (bird), and I thought that the idea of a cat as her protector was interesting. Also, I like the challenge that, even tho our dwarf hero is stout, what would it look like if he moved more like a cat—with the speed and grace you wouldn’t expect from such a short bulk.
I think I’ll play more with the cat metaphor. I try to find irony where I can, because it’s been my experience that it’s the most entertaining.
Crom and I have been writing for other people and projects over the last year. Some of which were nominated for minor provincial awards, all of which we’re pretty proud to claim we’ve written.
But we’ve been neglecting our own projects. If you have a project, then you know what I’m talking about; the disappointment of realizing, “if I could have worked those long months on this instead of that…”. That realization kicks you in the gut, and is common with those of us who have to eat.
We have a new project, WTB Chicken, and it’s characters and story are turning into something with a surprising amount of charm. The premise is simple enough: An old war-weary dwarf has dedicated his life to freeing a chicken from her cage.
“A chicken!?” you say? Yes—CHARM. On Monday we broke the introductory story for these characters, their struggles and the world, and Crom’s hammering out a first draft of the script for next Monday. The first story has a wonderful simplicity, and yet allude to the growing epic tales to come.
The sketch is of our dwarf, Orock. Who is our mysterious chicken? Her name is Josephine, and I’ll have some sketches of her in the next post.
Keep drawing.