Heeeere's a bunch of sketches! For our character design final we all had to develop the world of the Jabberwock! It's super exciting - yet another thing that's really close to my heart. My siblings and I used to put on plays and puppet shows, and this poem was one of them, so I decided to base my concepts on my family. The Beamish Boy is much like my brother when he was a lad, and the Mother/narrator/queen is certainly based on my own mom. Finals for this will be uploaded soon!
Remember Mr. Dead Taxi Driver? Here are some of his passengers. The first were lovers in a circus, murdered by a jealous sword-swallower. What a jerk! The second is a gruff rich fellow who lived alone in the mountains with only his chihuahua, who he spent all of his money doting on. They died together after he runs out of the shower to save it from the freezing winter weather.
Oh man, I dug this assignment so much. Everyone received a musical decade between the 50's-80's from which to design a band... and luckily, I got the latter. I desperately wanted to draw knights, and warped my band into a bunch of minstrels who, by ritual accident, get warped forward in time to the 1980's and adapt to become a neo-medieval all-girl goth band that takes the musical scene by storm. They're called Knightfall - here's their album cover that I never finished heheh
An exciting assignment in illustration to re-design a pre-existing literary character based purely on their original description and our interpretation of that; shedding all influence of previous incarnations was extremely hard! I chose the Monkey King from the beloved Chinese tale Journey to the West, a story that I was raised with and that has always been prevalent in my life! He's such a thrilling character! And who doesn't want to draw monkeys when given the chance?
Here is his gear. That driver's badge/eyeball looks in the direction he's supposed to go (a sassy little compass, basically.)
