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lookingland Oct. 11th, 2007 08:35 am)
lookingland Oct. 11th, 2007 08:35 am)this post is for moo, by special request to see sketches.
so we finally introduce Lewis on page 7. and Lewis looks typically pissed off. or annoyed. i actually don't think he's either in the scene, but he's a man of few facial expressions. eventually i will have to draw a picture of him smiling, but it's hard to conceive at the moment.
i can already see that being consistent on the placement of his facial scars is going to be problematic for me. if i dug back through old pictures, i'm pretty sure the marks on his cheek used to be angled the other way, but i alway forget, so now this is how they look (and oh well ~ there's no laws governing the trajectory of shrapnel that says he couldn't have been hit this way).
the scar on the bridge of his nose and forehead (which is mostly covered by his hair) are more recent additions (they come from a gun stock and i really didn't mean to mark his face up so much, but...): i needed a way for Linwood to be able to recognize him, primarily, and also, it gave me a convenient excuse for why his hair is always in his face. i don't think Lewis is actually all that self-conscious about his scars, but i think he'd rather not answer questions about those particular ones. i was hesitant to mark his forehead so obviously (the covered scar is sort of a fish-hook shape from his left eyebrow, with a gash underscoring it on his bridge). i thought it might be a little too harry potter because it's significant (not in a magical way, but story-wise), but i decided i don't care.
Lewis is forty years old in this picture (he don't look it, i know ~ that's another thing i am going to struggle with). i don't want to grey his hair for another five years or so, but drawing age is hard for me (Lewis is always a pissed off teenager to me sometimes). it's going to be interesting to see if i can make the age progression work. i'm not worried about Morse (he doesn't age), but the women are also especially going to be hard to track over time. i can draw young and i'm more or less okay with old (like old old), but these middle-age years are a wee difficult.
Lewis definitely looks older here than his teenaged years, but i don't think he looks forty ~ especially not for someone who's lived as hard a life as he has.
and there you have it and there it is.
is it friday yet?
: o p
so we finally introduce Lewis on page 7. and Lewis looks typically pissed off. or annoyed. i actually don't think he's either in the scene, but he's a man of few facial expressions. eventually i will have to draw a picture of him smiling, but it's hard to conceive at the moment.
i can already see that being consistent on the placement of his facial scars is going to be problematic for me. if i dug back through old pictures, i'm pretty sure the marks on his cheek used to be angled the other way, but i alway forget, so now this is how they look (and oh well ~ there's no laws governing the trajectory of shrapnel that says he couldn't have been hit this way).
the scar on the bridge of his nose and forehead (which is mostly covered by his hair) are more recent additions (they come from a gun stock and i really didn't mean to mark his face up so much, but...): i needed a way for Linwood to be able to recognize him, primarily, and also, it gave me a convenient excuse for why his hair is always in his face. i don't think Lewis is actually all that self-conscious about his scars, but i think he'd rather not answer questions about those particular ones. i was hesitant to mark his forehead so obviously (the covered scar is sort of a fish-hook shape from his left eyebrow, with a gash underscoring it on his bridge). i thought it might be a little too harry potter because it's significant (not in a magical way, but story-wise), but i decided i don't care.
Lewis is forty years old in this picture (he don't look it, i know ~ that's another thing i am going to struggle with). i don't want to grey his hair for another five years or so, but drawing age is hard for me (Lewis is always a pissed off teenager to me sometimes). it's going to be interesting to see if i can make the age progression work. i'm not worried about Morse (he doesn't age), but the women are also especially going to be hard to track over time. i can draw young and i'm more or less okay with old (like old old), but these middle-age years are a wee difficult.
Lewis definitely looks older here than his teenaged years, but i don't think he looks forty ~ especially not for someone who's lived as hard a life as he has.
and there you have it and there it is.
is it friday yet?
: o p
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and he's holding teeth! he is, after all, a dentist.
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hey! Thanks!
I like the pic. I think the 40s are hard ages to draw because peeps vary so widely in that age group some with a lot of eye wrinkles and softening of the jaw line or (for men mostly) that hollowing out of the cheeks ...and some don't look much different than they did in their 30s.
That said, I don't have a problem accepting Lewis as 40 in this illustration.
And yeah I'd like to see Lewis smiling too --he must have smiled, he has children.
mooey, the fabulously powerful
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thankie moo the powerful!