Friday, January 15, 2010

Wigs and Cravat



Some character and costume design for the upcoming Marquis and the Midwife graphic novel~ the "rich scared couple" only show up for three pages, and since their main purpose is being "scared" I worked up that expression in the sketches first. Next I came up with a couple costumes designs that I was lucky to like on the first pass~ so those designs stuck and I went to final pencils above.

I don't reference clothing much anymore, I poured over so many clothing styles to the time period during the Inferno stories that I have a good basic idea of 18th century styles and can use that as a basis to build up on and make some designs more fanciful for the Marquis' world. Which usually means huge or bizarre wigs, lots of layers and cravats for everyone.

5 comments:

  1. How you can take such loose pencils and and turn them into such awesomeness boggles my mind.

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  2. Not only are the costumes very evocative of the time period, but from what I can see in the pencils the architectural details are as well!

    Great stuff as always :)

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  3. Thanks everyone, I'll post inks and finishes side by side with some pencils in the coming months too.

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