Friday 8 November 2013

The Early Sketches

October 20 has been a few years in the making, although I only started getting serious around May of last year. I've did alot of sketches of the characters before that, and I've managed to find a few of them again, and I thought it might be fun to go through a few of them. I'd like to think I've gotten better at drawing since I did them, so  a few will be quite primitive.

This is the very first image I had of Rai. Originally, he was supposed to be from Brazil, and a very different character. He was pretty much a miserable grouch, and was actually supposed to be one of the deceased, along with Yun, Kibwe and Kunajak, back when the story was just the very first chapter, and Catherine was the last survivor.

He soon became much more like the character that's in the comic now though, once I decided that he was one of my two main protagonists. This is the almost finished version. The shape of his face is the same, but his hair is more wavy, his eyes just slightly slanted, and his cheek bones more pronounced.

 Cat was also different early on. She was supposed to have shorter hair, her scars had a different shape, and she made no effort to hide them.

 I'd pretty much decided to go with this model of Catherine, until I got the cover back from Arthur, and I made her look like that in the actual comic. I kind of preferred it when she had shorter hair, though. She may get a haircut once the comic moves along.

As for poor Ansgar, I can't really find any sketches of him. This is a sketch I did a long time ago, which as one point was going to be the basis for him. Not the blandness, and complete lack of recognisable features. Aren't you glad I made him older and more distinctive in the end? I am.