Allan Graves character design for my upcoming crypto-comic!
Good evening, Steemians! I'm inundated with photography work the last few days, but I've been thinking about the crypto-comic project nonstop. If you haven't see some of the previous sketches and character design, I encourage you to skim through my feed and check out posts from a couple of weeks ago. I've had time to discuss complex, dramatic plot directions with my creative consultant, @mada. I'm still actively developing this world, and stacking the deck with interesting characters. One of which, I just finished the character profile of tonight.
Allan Graves
Basic Statistics
Age: 39
Ethnicity: Spanish
Hometown: Barcelona, Spain
Parents: Living Mother, Deceased Father
Children: None
Networth: $136,000
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 173 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Shape Of Face: Angular
Distinguishing Features: Excessive tattoos on face, arms, chest and hands
How Does He Dress: Well dressed, business professional
Habits: Drinking and socializing
Health: Good mental health, determined and confident. Good physical health with regular exercise and diet
Favorite Saying: "I was a teenage werewolf.”
Greatest Flaw: Misguided ambition
Best Quality: Charismatic and youthful perspective on life
Character Summary
Allan Graves was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain. He met his partner, Mariana Apostolakis Malfatti and the two eventually began a life together in the UK. Graves was and is a charismatic individual. His trade as an artist eventually led him to being a tattoo artist prior to the rise of mainstream crypto adoption.
Both Allan and Mariana faced harsh scrutiny living in The UK as immigrants post Brexit. As racism, judgements and xenophobia, the couple suffered regular prejudice in their personal and professional lives. They eventually were pushed so far they took up activism, which inadvertently found Mr. Graves and Ms. Malfatti with momentum in an unexpected rising political career, supported by large demographics of young, progressives.
More characters and plot ahead as this thing comes to life. All artwork done using Procreate on the 12.9" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Always open to feedback and constructive criticism. Here's a quick speed drawing of the process of coming up with Allan Graves.
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Really nice artwork!
Thank you very much @michaelstobiersk!
More great work, I enjoy watching the process videos. You must have reworked the eyes on that full figure a dozen times! :)
I'm curious if you're using a default pencil or one you've customized/downloaded? My line quality isn't nearly as good, though it may just be my need to practice more...
Thanks @bryan-imhoff! Yeah, I love that Procreate gives you the ability to record drawings from the first line, automatically. The eyes were killing me on this, lol. I use the 6B pencil with a few modifications to the tilt opacity and pressure curve. I tend to like my pencil a little softer.
Thanks for the info, that gives me a good starting point to play around with myself! I actually wanted to post a video of the last piece I did, but I discovered my settings were only recording at low resolution and it looked horrid, so hopefully I'll have some good ones moving forward.
Very talented. But you probably knew that.
Thank you @dgiors! Wait till the pages start to come for this crypto-comic. It's going to be awesome!