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Post #182626

Author
ocpmovie
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
17-Feb-2006, 1:57 AM
I spent the night printing out screen grabs from the DVD, most of them tiny and hard to see, and carrrefully drawing them as line art.

http://orangecow.org/thief/cobblerscanweb.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/thiefscanweb.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/yumyumnodscanweb.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/zigzagscan5web.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/zigzagscanweb.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/oneeyescanweb.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/zigzagscan2web.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/zigzagscan3web.jpg
http://orangecow.org/thief/oldwitchscanweb.jpg

Difficult characters to draw, to say the least.

For perspective, I mastered drawing, say, Aladdin's Genie at the age of 12, but today 12 years later drawing Zigzag gave me conniptions. I gave up on original thought and wound up tracing very carefully - it still took me many tries to get anything that felt right. Just his hands alone can drive a lesser man insane. He has six fingers, and something like 20 bulbous rings on each hand. He looks different in each frame, but if you change anything about him he looks completely wrong. Drawing the hands, or drawing One Eye, sometimes I'd just think, what the hell am I drawing?? So insanely complex and obscure when it LOOKS simple.

I'm proudest of the Old Witch. And Nod and Yumyum, since the screen grab I was working from was very small and vague so I was coming up with most of it on my own. Some of these show signs of redrawing and reworking - I'll fix a lot of things when I'm coloring them.