Up top here is a possible design for Mercedes from The Count of Monte Cristo project, and down below are two possible designs for a bartender in Oyster War.
Tag: Count of Monte Cristo
Feb 19 2010
Sketchbook 2/19
…And yet a few more Count of Monte Cristo sketches, this time of Haydee. She’s a character who often gets cut, or at least diminished, in film/TV versions but I’d definitley find a way to keep her front and center if possible. I’m not really happy with either of these designs, but you gotta start …
Feb 18 2010
Sketchbook 2/18
Yet more noodling on The Count of Monte Cristo–this time, The Count himself. The main thing I’m going for here is to (unlike any film or TV version I’ve seen) really play up the Orientalist nature of the book, and The Count in particular. I don’t know that these two images do that entirely, but …
Feb 12 2010
Sketchbook 2/12
More sketchbook ruminations on character designs from The Count of Monte Cristo. This time it’s Fernand, shown here on the left as the young Fernand Mondego, and on the right as “The Count de Morcerf,” a title he purchases with ill-gotten spoils of war.
Feb 08 2010
Sketchbook 02/08
I don’t know if anything will come of this Count of Monte Cristo thing, but it’s at least something fun to work on in my sketchbook. This is another rumination on the character of Danglars (shown young and old here), who hits me as a real nouveau riche type who would probably be decked out …
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