Four weeks left to try to get this done. I love impossible deadlines.

So the process begins. These are some of the first sketches where the protagonist is actually starting to work for me. Of course this stuff will be refined, but for now this is enough to start sketching with.

When I worked as a storyboard (piss) artist I got so disheveled as an artist that I couldn't draw a board until I had a design in front of me. I'd been so beaten down by the non-sensical process of production television animation that I wouldn't start a board until I had a design actually in my hand.

That might sound crazy, but if I went ahead and just started to draw, designing the stuff I'd need to tell the story, them fuckers would design something entirely opposite to what I'd just drawn. It would kill my board and I'd have to pretty much start from scratch anyway.

Anyway, back to out protagonist. This I like, the hat amuses me and I can start to bash out sketches for all the other things I need too. I do like to re-use designs and ideas from my other work, it helps to tie together my projects so theres a wholeness and connectedness to it (as much as possible anyway).