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One thing I've noticed about my blogging thus far is that I have a pattern (if you can have a pattern after only a month) of tappering off towards the end of the week. Foto Friday has been thus far a preview of some work I'm doing professionally right now (zombies!), a nice start to a piece (Egypt!) and a look back at some top-notch (IMHO) work I did a few years back (jazz hands!).
I wanted to take this week though and actually do a full piece from scratch, and take you through my thinking and process. This week we'll be tackling Daken, Wolverine's son.
....yeah, Wolverine's got a son. I actually wrote that. -sigh-
Anyways, this is a character that's... really not much more than his dad. A badass. Has some claws. Kills Folks. Bisexual.
Check, check, check and ch-...WHAT?!?
Yeah, Marvel seems to have snuck a bisexual Wolverine clone right under our noses. (That sounds dirty and I don't know why) It's interesting, and gives the character a hook, an amorality that his pops doesn't have. Wolverine's a killer, and "crosses a line no one else will", yadda yadda, but he's still got a concrete set of beliefs and a moral code that he believes in. He's a good guy.
Daken's not. He's out for himself and will use anything to achieve whatever his goal is at a given moment. Including sex. Daken's sexuality is maybe more accurately defined as pan-sexual rather than bisexual, but the result is same, in that he's gettin' it on with dudes and the ladies. This is a trait you can often find in the femme fatale; maybe it's that identification, rather than the sex itself, which strikes me as the most androgynous element of the character.
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Anyways, here's what I've got so far. My sketch of Daken. It's mostly geometry and figuring out anatomy and gesture. My reference for the piece is here. I tried to find a pose that was a little feminine in its gesture and 's curve'... and then I tried to push that as far as I could.
Decent start, more to come...
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