The final (I promise this is the last WIP!) project I've currently got on the burners is my very first 'original character', Samwell.
Admittedly, he's a bit bald at the moment, and that's something I should probably rectify (even though he looks surprisingly okay that way). And his suit is quite a bit less ripped than I plan on having it. But it's something.
Going by me middle school imagination, Samwell is a hawk demon with long blue hair, an armband tattoo, and an earring with the fang of his girlfriend on it. He could also talk to birds, and was a super genius. And could hack into any computer system.
I'm....pretty sure this was the first picture I drew, so yeeeeeaaaaah. Surprisingly, it's always been a bit difficult for me to draw Samwell, because I always think back to how I drew him years and years ago. Since my style's largely drifted away from emulating Yu-Gi-Oh, there are quite a few set-in-stone 'character traits' that really don't hold sway with how I draw things nowadays, bu they're often what I picture whenever I go to put him on paper. Square eyes, winged eyelashes, and randomly emphasized musculature were what I had thought made him unique, and figuring out how to evolve his concept really gives me artists block sometimes.
It's an interesting phenomenon, since I often feel like my drawings of him are worse than when I depict more recently created characters. Am I regressing when I draw him? Is this how comic artists feel, once their title has been running for a decade or more?
Anyone else have issues like this, drawing older characters, or favorite cartoons from your childhood?
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