Saturday, February 16, 2013

Evil Drag Queen Final Design


Character Render: 3/4 Front and Back


Glitter Canon: Views and Call-Outs


Final Illustration

For this week’s homework in Design Process I was challenged by my teacher to take a more realistic approach to my Evil Drag Queen character design after seeing my sketches from last week. I definitely learned a lot about how to render human anatomy and fabric, and ended up with an illustration that is probably the best I’ve ever painted so far :)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Evil Drag Queen

Character exploration for the young prince


Character exploration for the adult Evil Drag Queen


Character Exploration


Costume Exploration


Costume Exploration


Prop Exploration: The Evil Queen uses a canon to shoot a shower of glitter. If one is caught in the shower, their clothes turn to the opposite of their gender


Prop Exploration

For this week's homework for my Design Process 2 class, we were given a series of character types and told to create a character and a prop centered around that theme. One of the character types was "Evil Queen" and for some reason I kept imagining an Evil Drag Queen, so I just went with it!

The Story:

Once upon a time there lived a young prince who lived in a beautiful palace with his mother the queen and father the king. However unlike most princes, he didn’t enjoy dressing like a prince, and preferred to dress like a princess. One fateful day he was caught in the act of wearing one of his mother’s gowns and was severly punished by his father. The prince was told never to dress in gowns and crowns ever again and to act like the respectable prince he was expected to be.
Many years passed and the prince’s father grew ill and died. The prince, was crowned king, but instead made himself queen. Without the threat of his parents looming over his head, the prince, now queen, dressed in the most flamboyant of fashions. He made a decree that all men would now dress as woman, and all woman would dress as men. If these demands were not met, they would be punished by death. The queen wanted his subjects to feel the pain and frustration he felt all those years, being forced to act in a way that didn’t feel genuine.
Shortly into the reign of the new queen, the people of the kingdom revolted. They took over the castle and captured the queen. The queen was publically executed by guillotine, in the way his idol, Marie Antoinette, was killed. He didn’t mind, to him, that would be the most fabulous way to go.