DESIGN TUESDAY: 2009-ish exploratory sketches, pt.2! (Patreon)

Here a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.

Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing around with varied character design work for a few weeks, which is something I'd never done on a sustained basis before (or since, TBH).

This time around, we're wrapping up my sketches for the character Allegra (with a few more hair variations) before moving on to my initial takes on Eddie, a character whom I did not care for all that much when he was first intro'd as the giant-afroed mascot of the sequel SSX: Tricky. Howeva, I was surprised to develop some fondness for the ol' stringbean over the course of five pages of design tests. As we'll see next time, I branched out with some new variations on this initial take with the final few pages of Eddie sketches, before moving on to the first SSX game's more statuesque "mascot" character.

(Come to think of it, I should probably rip myself off and use this "stringbean" chara design in a comic, as opposed to the usual "strapping hunk o' beef" male characters I usually depict.)

TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: More Distressed Damsels content for the $5+ tiers, as usual on a Wednesday. This time around, a con sketch and short comic find poor "Rose & Lily" wind up conscripted into a sinister magic act; look out, Rose & lily!