OK, I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: Took is really easy to write, but really hard to draw. I thought I’d figured him out in these pics:
But I almost think he’s too cute??? I dunno. I was thinking a longer face might be better, since it would make him look more like Lanthriel, but Lanthriel gets his “longness” from his mom, so…uh. I’m not sure. I just don’t want him to be cute and generic looking. So here are some sketches and notes! Also, noses. The weird expression in the bottom right was me trying to explore how extreme his faces are. I think this might be a little too much but it’s funny. XD
I don’t know what’s happening in this picture but I think Took is at work? He must work with other sorcerers and engineers occasionally. I didn’t really care to figure out what he was doing so I just left the first one as body boxes. The dialogue came out of nowhere.
P.S. The Took drawing for your birthday is still in the works! Right now your birthday Took has the long face look pictured above. It’s not quite as angular-cutesy as the face I gave him in the traditional study and the 2011 expression study, but he does look a little more…suave, with the long face? For what that’s worth? It used to be important to me that he looked like a teenager, but that’s not a priority to me, anymore…especially now that I’m much closer to his age (AHAHAHAHA weird thought).
I think I’d like him to have a sort of Disney villain look to him, where he’s not generically attractive but his design *works.* My problem now is that I don’t know how to incorporate the elements I’ve noticed Disney uses to “uglify” their villains (extreme cheek bones, long chins, bags under the eyes, long upper lips) without him looking WAY too old. Quandary >/
Yeah, that’s a trick. young villains are hard to come by unless all the characters are kids. Mozenrath doesn’t have the best animation to look at, since all of his episodes were animated by that chinese studio. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I will think on this. In the mean time THANK YOU FOR SO MUCH TOOK. I love that you don’t even have to have a context to know that’s what he’d be saying at any given moment on the job hahahahaha.
HA! I just saw the title of this post.
so the only young villain I could think of for reference (aside from Malfoy) was that character that I mentioned before from Game of Thrones, King Joffrey. Somehow he manages to make himself look very roundfaced yet sinister. I don’t think that’s the look you’re going for, but you might be able to pull something from it without making Took look WAY old, ala Disney.
https://www.google.com/search?q=king+joffrey&safe=active&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=LjlTU7LVHqmV8QHMwoC4Bw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1536&bih=788
King Joffrey is too babyfaced, I think…
What would you think if I experimented with Tulio’s design, from The Road to El Dorado? It’s long, really expressive…and there’s that one scene in the boat when he’s got dark circles under his eyes, but he just looks sick, not old.
I love his design, but he doesn’t look evil XD I was only looking at “bad guys” for references. Sure, he’s a good source to look at!