WIP....character (cartoon)

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Here is a character I just started working on for a series of animated shorts I will be putting together. The character “will” be, like an (kinda) evil pre-teen genius that has some characteristics of an old man because of his pursuit to accomplish something (or obtain something) hence the receeding hair and bad posture. This is a very initial sketch and I am still working on his mannerisms and clothing. He will have a pet that looks just like him. Have not decided on what the pet will be. What I want to know if there are any cartoon characters out there that this too closely resembles, plus any critiques or ideas will be cool. I got the idea while looking at my thumb…lol.

(and yes I know he has no mouth and ears…supposed to be that way.)

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interesting character… I could see the posture working, also maybe because of the size of his head. You can’t really crit this because it is an original concept, other than to say what a person would do differently, but then who is to say…
I think it is good for a pre work up… will absolutely gain character once you colorize it… cool little dude, don’t think I have seen anything close to it…
can’t wait to see some animi
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looks good dude, how about some hair,some stylised freaky/crazy professor hair-do.

  • the only thing that looks similar to me is the hands and that button, hmm where have i seen that before?
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nice work, did a little play though…

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thanks, ya’ll I drew this during a meeting where I should have been paying attention. But sometimes I have a habit of recalling something I seen previously subconsciously. Like I said I was looking at my thumb when I drew it. Thus the big frontal lobe. I’ll keep ya’ll posted on the progress.

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nice work DDD, does it have a name?

is he evil? yes he is :smiley:

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Soulty,

What you’re thinking about was Simplistiks entry in the Gizmodo battle. Same kind of shaped hand and button pushing. The site with all the entries is down otherwise I would link the image.

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And DDD. I love the character. I’m interested to see what it looks like once you color it.

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yeah thats it, he told me he didnt even realise that… sorta like he mention before “recalling something I seen previously subconsciously.” anyway, its only a stance which i like, so all good.

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d’oh. I did a retouch with the head upside down, didn’t work to attach it though now deleted too. looked good too though

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I would hav loved to see it our of curiosity. But I think I am going to ride out our odd headed friend. I’ll post a colored sketch with a better pose hopefully tomorrow. Unfortuantely I got more pressing projects right now.

It seems I can never escape reference to Simplistik. The thing with the button is when I sketched him this dude was boring so I imagined I had a button to blow his ***** up. I did not show you guys the rest of the paper…lol with the carnage on it.

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haha, no worries DDD. We know you’re not stealing ideas. I want to see him colored.

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That’s ok… I know you luv me :drool: :love:

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looks very cool and uhmmm i couldn’t help myself going over it in freehand…
i just hope you don’t mind!!
(btw, image quality suks)

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Just make sure that is the extent of its use. :bad: I am going over him in sketchbook right now. Everything above this post is copyright to me…lol. Please dont redistribute or use.

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hehe, if you want the freehand file a psd or a eps/ai or anything else just tell me!

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lol…j/k about playing around with it, feel free. (not j/k about the copyright thing :bad: )

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hehe i wont steal work, i have to much pride for that! i just wanted some practise in freehand and you provided a great subject :P, i am gonna color it too :stuck_out_tongue: haha

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you can color it long as you dont do it better than me…:lol:

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don’t worry i am pretty bad and illustration (as you can see) and coloring (what you will see)