Rough sketch of the huntsman

My brother Ronnie said that I should post one of the sketches before I do any cleaning up or re-drawing. So here's my quick sketch of the huntsman. Can you tell that he's going to be a grapefruit head? As you can see I didn't leave enough room on the paper to complete his feet. I'm also not happy with his hands yet. Since he's running his left arm really should be drawn behind him, but then you wouldn't see much of it at all. I'll fix it so his left hand is fisted more. Plus his right thumb would be behind the ax handle a bit more ... probably won't even see it so I'll erase that. But you can see where I've been playing with where his legs and knees should fall. Hmm, I like his mouth but it's angled down to the right too much. Finally his eyes need to be less sleepy. He is after all an angry man with an ax out to save a damsel in distress. Those eyes might need to have a bit of white around the tops of them too. At any rate this shows how I like to sketch things out ... all very scratchy and rough.

Comments

[clothmatters]

The huntsman looks good. I love his grapefruit looking head! :)

[Susan]

I like your brother's suggestion. Now I know it doesn't all flow perfectly from your pencil without the use of an eraser. =) alove the grapefruit head!

[Ronnie]

Always cool to see your roughs; it's inspiring to see your thought process and how things evolve in the course of the drawing. And I really love the final product, as well, of course! Particularly how you use interesting textures and patterns to define background elements. So glad you're posting your work like this, it's always inspiring.