A tough question when first thought of… As a lot of good ideas come to mind when pondering both topics. However, my mind gently leans towards Menagerie. Purely for the fact that I have never been assigned to do a project like it, primarily due to working more in a graphic design and advertising focus based more on a business / selling aspect of design. I am ecstatic to be able to go away from that business / selling focus a bit, and finally able to just make some cool stuff! (hopefully)
(inspiration below)
I keep up on a lot of artists that I like using Instagram, Tumblr, and random other sites. But the artist’s that I thought of the most when thinking about creating a character line were primarily from Instagram.
Those being,
@Craig.Gleason
Craig Gleason
(art below) primarily using graphite, ink, and marker.
@Ugly_Ink
Sam Moore
(art below) primarily using ink, and marker.
@willpacheco88
William Pacheco
(below) Tattoo artist.
(one of my personal favorite tattoo artists) | Super simple, yet extremely interesting.
Lately my “doodles” and sketches have been formulating more of a mysterious people dynamic which I quite enjoy. (another factor that made me lean towards formulating characters)
(earlier mentioned “doodles” below)
I think that going in a direction more towards, a possible (North, South, East, West) or (earth, fire, water, wind) guardians of some sort.
Or a group of bad guys of sorts, like the bad guys club above (Craig Gleason).
Stay tuned…
More to come, next week.
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