Thursday, February 7, 2008

Refining the Character Design

Last year, after I got back from Comic-Con International in San Diego, I was very fired up to finish up the character design for Ursula. There were still a couple of sticking points from the previous sketches: (1) I still hated every hair style I had come up with for her and (2) a traditional gun belt looked very cumbersome, really taking away from the line of her figure.

This sketchbook page shows those elements finally coming together. Oh, sure, the figure proportions are off and the face looks wonky, but the hair looks contemporary and the gun belt seems non-obtrusive anchored on her hip. I finally had done all of the elements well—just not in the same drawing!

That comes later.

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