So here are a couple pictures of a character of mine. His name is Matthew and he's been floating around in my head for about six years. It's only within the last month that I've figured out exactly what he looks like and drawn a satisfactory picture of him.
Nice shades, yes?
This is what he looked like when I drew him two years ago.
Quite a change. The only constants seem to be his earrings and wings. His personality, cheerful and snarky, has never changed, though.
His origins are quite interesting: I dreamed of him one night. A winged man with dark red skin and bright red hair. He seemed interesting and I used him as a character in a story I was working on. The story no longer exists, but within it he lived in the mountains fighting monsters all day, being extremely cheerful. I changed his hair to black and gave him silver claws that froze whatever they slashed.
Nowadays he can't do that, his claws are black, and he can shift back and forth between his human and winged forms.
He probably owes his existence to the fact I adored the show Gargoyles as a child. But by the time I dreamed him up it had been five years since I had last seen the show and had pretty much forgotten it existed. In fact, Matthew eventually reminded me of the show and I ended up watching episodes of it on youtube and getting hooked on it again. Except for the third season. There was never a third season. Never, do you hear me? NEVER.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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